Boston Common

In or about the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred thirty and four, the inhabitants of the town of Boston, led chiefly by the Honble John Winthrop Esqr Govnr of the Colony, treated and agreed with Mr William Blackstone for the purchase of his estate and rights in lands lying within the neck of land called Boston, after which purchase the town laid out a plan for a training field that ever since and now is used for that purpose and for the feeding of cattle; this account comes from the deposition of John Odlin and others concerning the sale of Blackstone land known as Boston Commons.

Cambridge, Massachusetts · United States