Home › B › Boston (Seaport in Lincolnshire)

Boston (Seaport in Lincolnshire)

a seaport in Lincolnshire, England, 107 miles N. E. of London. Its name is a contraction of Botolph's town, BOSTON MASSACRE and it is commonly supposed to occupy the site of the Benedictine Abbey founded on the Witham by St. Botolph in 654, and destroyed in 870 by the Danes. The parish church of St. Botolph measures 283 by 99 feet, and is one of the largest without transepts in England. In 1843 the restoration of the church was commenced, the work continuing 10 years, and over $50,000 being expended. A chapel to the memory of the Rev. Thomas Cotton, at one time Vicar of Boston, was erected at the expense of the inhabitants of the city of Boston, Mass. A promenade by the river is tastefully laid out, grammar, ch with a people's park, public gardens, and recreation ground adjoining. Boston has also a free gra The river and canals and other schools, a guildhall, etc. The chief exports are coal, machinery, corn, and wool; and the imports consist of timber, maize, cotton seed, and general merchandise. charity, national, furnish communication with Lincoln and several other towns. Boston is a great market for cattle and sheep, and has manufactures of canvas, sail cloth, ropes, sacking, beer, iron, brass, leather, bricks, whiting and hats, with some shipbuilding. Fox, the martyrologist, and Herbert of the "Illusbert Ingram, founder of " to whom a statue News" trated London News," was erected in 1862, were natives of Boston. Since the Distribution of Seats Act (1885) Boston returns only one member to Parliament. The town owns extensive docks. Pop. about 17,000.

Act (1885) Boston returns only one that city, March 5, 1770, that resulted from the exasperated feeling between residents of the town and the British soldiers quartered there. It began on the 2d of March, with the exchange of insults and blows between a group of workmen and some passing soldiers.

Minor injuries resulted, but the affair was erected in 1862, were natives of proportions. Three days later, toward evening, another party of soldiers was denied passage by a crowd of people armed with canes and clubs. The officer of the detachment sent his soldiers back, extensive docks. Pop. about 17,000. that city, March 5, 1770, that resulted BOSTON MASSACRE, an affray in from the exasperated feeling between residents of the town and the British soldiers quartered there. It began on the 2d of March, with the exchange of insults and blows between a group of workmen and some passing soldiers. sentinel on guard in front of the Custom House. He struck a boy with the butt 9-Vol. of his musket, and the latter ran off and brought up a crowd, who pressed upon the sentinel with shouts of "Kill him!

Knock him down!" The sentinel was assailed with a shower of snowballs and driven up the steps. He called for assistance and his comrades responded, ir colonel, Preston, at their head. The surged about them, and at last was fired by the soldiers that BOSWELL two others.

Hutchinson and the soldiers ordered back to their barracks. A trial ensued and Josiah Quincy, was acquitted, while two discharged. A monument was resulted in the killing of three men and the mortal wounding of two counsel, including John Adams and hurried to the scene and there was tremendous excitement, that was quieted only when Preston was put under arrest by order of Lieutenant-Governor Preston, who was defended by eminent counsel, including John Adams and of the soldiers who were found guilty of manslaughter were branded in the hand and dis erected in 1888 to the memory of the victims.