Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-07-07

and Milk streets, where is now the old South Meeting house. and this early called Corn hill. Soon, however a further advance was made to Summer, this extension later being called Marlborough street, in commemoratlon or the VIC tory of Blenheim In a few years third street was added toward Essex and Boylston streets named Newbury The "sea" then came up in the Great cove from the harbor fairly close to the present square of State street for highwater mark was at the present Kilby street on the South side and Merchants on the North side The Great swept inside Of these streets' Merchants row followed the shore northWard to smaller cove, stretching from where IS now North Market street and the Quincy market (the first Mayor Quincys monument) and over the site of Faneuil hall to Dock square, which De- came the Town dock. Other pioneer mghWays were the nucleus of the present Fremont street, originally running along the northeastern spurs of the then broad-spreading Beacon hill and pass ing through the Common Hanover street. at hrst a narrow lane from what is now Scoilay square and Ann afterward North street, from DOCK suuare both leading to the ferries by Copp nlH where tradition says the Indians had their 1erry Court street was first Prison lane from the Mar ket place to the prison, gruesome dungeon' early set up where stands the modern Guy Hall annex In it's day it harbored pirates and Ouakers and Hawthorne fancied it for the open ing scenes of his Scarlet Letter.. School street took it's name from the first schoolhouse ana the first school, whence sprang the Boston Latln school which felictates itself that 1t antedates the university at Cambridge and "dandled liar yard college on it's knee" Milk street, first Fort lane was the first way to Fort hill on the harbor front Summer street, first "Mylne lane led to "Widow Tuthilps Windmill" near where was Church Green, up to which the water came. Cow lane" now High street, led from Church Green or Mill lane to the foot of Fort hill Essex street was originally at its eastern end part of f a beach road that ran along the south shore Of the South cove another expansive indentation, ex- tending from the harboT on the south slde or Fort hill to the Neck Boylston street, originally Frog Iane' and holding fast to this bucohc ap- pellation into the nineteenth century was swampy way running westward along the south side of Boston Common toward the open Back bay the back basin of the Charles-then flowing up to a pebbly beach at the Commons western edge and to the present Park square.
 Here then, on the levels about the Great cove, in the form of a crescent facing the sea and backed by the three-peaked hill, the town was established.
 The first occupation within the scant ter ritory bounded, generally speaking, the east side by State street at the high-water line of the Great cove; northerly by Merchants row around to near the site of Faneuil hall; north westerly by Dock square and Hanover street; westerly by the great hill and Fremont street; southerly by School and Milk streets; and Milk street again to the water then working up toward the present Liberty square at the junction Of Kilby, water and Batterymarch streets. Soon however the limits expanded, reaching southward to Summer street, and not long after to Essex and Boylston streets; eastward, to the harbor front at and around Fort hill westward and northwestward, about another broad cove-this the North cove later the Mill cove" with busy mills about it, an indentation on the north Of Beacon hill by the widening of the Charles river at its mouth, and covering the space now Hay market square; and northward, over the pe- ninsulas north end, which early became the seat of gentility.
 No further expansion of moment was made through the colony period, and the extension slight during the Province period. Beacon hll except It's slopes remained till after the Revolu- tion in it's primitive state it's long western reach place of pastures over which the cows roamed and the barberry and the wild grew.
 The foot of the Common on the margin of the gnting Back bay the towns west boundary till after the Revolution and into the nineteenth century. Till then the tide of the Back bay flowed up the present Beacon street. some 200 feet above the present Charles street. The towns southern limit, except few houses toward the Neck on the fourth link of the highway to Rox bury (called Orange street in honor of the house or Orange), was still Essex and Boylston streets The andway to the mainland, till after the second decade of the nineteenth century, remained the long, lean Neck to Roxbury The only water way, at the beginning of the town, by means of ships, boats, afterward by scows. No bridge from Boston built till the Revolution was two years past
 So the "stored town remained, till the close of the historic chapter little one, the buIt-up territory of which could easily be covered in stroll of day or two
 From its establishment as the capital Boston's history was so interwoven with that of the Colony that in England the Colony came early to be desig mated the "Bostoneers.' and the charter which the founders brought with them. and for the retention of which the colonists were in an almost constant struggle. was termed the "Bos ton Charter"