EXPLORE BOSTON 400

A new website based on the book, Boston, a small town with a big story, was created in the Platinum year of Queen Elizabeth II by more than 40 computing and digital technology students from Boston College. The book, Boston, a small town with a big story, is the creation of Richard Austin, BEM, and a community heritage project that involved more than 50…

In his History of Harvard University, Josiah Quincy, past President of Harvard University, states: “The General Court appointed twelve of the most eminent men of the colony to take order for a college at Newtown, all of their names dear to New England, on account of their sacrifices, their sufferings, and virtues.  Of the twelve, six were magistrates and six were clergy. The…

Sarah Hawkred is the only person born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England to have been interred in Boston’s King’s Chapel Burying Ground. Sarah died in May 1676 at the age of seventy-five and had been married three times. Her tombstone reads Sarah Mather but she was interred not far from John Cotton, her second husband of 20 years. After John Cotton died in December…

Although it is eight years until the 400th Anniversary of Boston, Massachusetts, it is not too early to begin promoting and planning for the event. The primary goal of BOSTON 400 is to anticipate the 400th Anniversary of Boston, Massachusetts by shedding light on how a relatively small group of individuals from Boston, Lincolnshire, and its surrounding villages played a pivotal role in…

In honor of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee a town in England will be granted city status and my beloved Boston, Lincolnshire has applied for consideration. For years, the City of Boston in America has celebrated the story of how a group of individuals from Boston, Lincolnshire founded the Massachusetts Bay Company and established a new Boston. Unfortunately, this story is less well-known and…