Neponset, Boston
Neponset is a district in the southeast corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ..., United States. The Neponset Indians were the original inhabitants of this district and in 1646 John Eliot preached unsuccessfully to the Native American community in Neponset (Dorchester) led by Sachem Cutshamekin before the tribe moved to Ponkapoag.John Eliot and Nonantum ON MARCH 22, 2017 BY WILLIAM P. MARCHIONE https://wpmarchione.com/2017/03/22/john-eliot-and-nonantum-2/ References Neighborhoods in Boston Populated coastal places in Massachusetts {{Boston-geo-stub ...
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Neponset Avenue, Neponset MA
Neponset may refer to: *Neponset, Illinois * Neponset, California *Neponset, Massachusetts, a district in the southeast corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts *The Neponset River in eastern Massachusetts *The Neponset River Reservation, a state park in Boston, along the Neponset River *The Neponset Native American tribe of eastern Massachusetts See also *Neponsit Neponsit is a small affluent neighborhood located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the New York City borough of Queens. The area starts at Beach 142nd Street and ends at Beach 149th Street. It borders the neig ...

Dorchester, Boston
Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot) is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood by far, is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods. The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated on the ship '' Mary and John'', among others. Founded in 1630, just a few months before the founding of the city of Boston, Dorchester now covers a geographic area approximately equivalent to nearby Cambridge.Histo ...
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut [Massachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət],'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine to the east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to the south, New Hampshire and Vermont to the north, and New York (state), New York to the west. The state's capital and List of municipalities in Massachusetts, most populous city, as well as its cultural and financial center, is Boston. Massachusetts is also home to the urban area, urban core of Greater Boston, the largest metropolitan area in New England and a region profoundly influential upon American History of the United States, history, academia, and the Economy of the United States, research economy. Originally dependent on agriculture, fishing, and trade. Massachusetts was transformed into a manuf ...
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Neponset People
Neponset may refer to: *Neponset, Illinois * Neponset, California *Neponset, Massachusetts, a district in the southeast corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts *The Neponset River in eastern Massachusetts *The Neponset River Reservation, a state park in Boston, along the Neponset River *The Neponset Native American tribe of eastern Massachusetts See also *Neponsit Neponsit is a small affluent neighborhood located on the western half of the Rockaway Peninsula, the southernmost area of the New York City borough of Queens. The area starts at Beach 142nd Street and ends at Beach 149th Street. It borders the neig ...

John Eliot (missionary)
John Eliot ( – 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indians who some called "the apostle to the Indians" and the founder of Roxbury Latin School in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1645. In 1660 he completed the enormous task of translating the ''Eliot Indian Bible'' into the Massachusett language, Massachusett Indian language, producing more than two thousand completed copies. English education and Massachusetts ministry John Eliot was born in Widford, Hertfordshire, Widford, Hertfordshire, England and lived at Nazeing as a boy. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge. After college, he became assistant to Thomas Hooker at a private school in Little Baddow, Essex. After Hooker was forced to flee to the Netherlands, Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arranging passage as chaplain on the ship ''Lyon'' and arriving on 3 November 1631. Eliot became Minister (Christianity), minister and "teaching elder" at the First Church i ...
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Ponkapoag
Ponkapoag , also Punkapaug, Punkapoag, or Punkapog, is the name of a Native American " praying town" settled in the late 17th century western Blue Hills area of eastern Massachusetts by persons who had accepted Christianity. It was established in 1657, during the colonization of the Atlantic seaboard of the United States by settlers from Britain. This was the name given to the winter residence (and subsequently to the tribe) of the group of Massachusett who lived at the mouth of the Neponset River near Dorchester in the summer, in what colonists called Neponset Mill. Ponkapoag is now contained almost entirely by the town of Canton, Massachusetts. The name is derived from a nearby pond south of Great Blue Hill; Ponkapoag means "shallow pond" or "a spring that bubbles from red soil". History Ponkapoag Plantation was established in 1657 as a town parcel formed from Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was the second Christianized native settlement, or "Praying Town ...
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Neighborhoods In Boston
Boston's diverse neighborhoods serve as a political and cultural organizing mechanism. The City of Boston's Office of Neighborhood Services has designated 23 Neighborhoods in the city: * Allston * Back Bay * Bay Village * Beacon Hill * Brighton * Charlestown * Chinatown– Leather District * Dorchester (divided for planning purposes into Mid-Dorchester and Dorchester) * Downtown * East Boston * Fenway-Kenmore (includes Longwood) * Hyde Park * Jamaica Plain * Mattapan * Mission Hill * North End * Roslindale * Roxbury * South Boston * South End * West End * West Roxbury * Wharf District The islands in Boston Harbor are administered as part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The Boston Redevelopment Authority, the City Parking Clerk, and the City's Department of Neighborhood Development have also designated their own neighborhoods. Unofficially, Boston has many overlapping neighborhoods of various sizes. Neighborhood associations have formed around ...
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