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Historic leaves, volume 3, April, 1904 - January, 1905, John Winthrop (search)
ater in Charlestown. Blackstone, the lone settler of Boston, as the record says, came and acquainted the Governor of an excellent Spring there; withal inviting him and soliciting him thither. This spring was probably on the south side of Spring lane, not far from Devonshire street, and from which the lane was named. On September 6, 1631, Winthrop was granted 600 acres of land on the south side of Mystic river, which he named Ten Hills. In 1632 he was granted Conant's Island, in Boston harbor, and changed its name to Governor's Garden, he planting orchards, fruit, and vines there. It is now Governor's Island, the site of Fort Winthrop. In November, 1632, he received a further grant of fifty acres of land near Wannottymies river, which is now Alewife brook, and in 1634 he was with Craddock granted the fish weir on the Mystic, at Medford, and again another grant of 1,000 acres or more on Concord river. Winthrop seems to have temporarily resided in Cambridge in 1632. He