John Bigg
The Early Settlers of the West End (1630 – 1645): John Bigg, Artillery Officer
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Era: New Fields (~1625-1780)
Early Boston, Trimount, farmland, mills, ropewalks, and early industry
Alexander Beck
The Early Settlers of the West End (1630 – 1645): Alexander Beck, Laborer
Population Over Time in the West End
A report on the population of the West End from the late colonial period through the modern day.
James Barton
James Barton was the owner of a rope walk in the West End, on the land of descendants of Sir John Leverett.
Charles Chambers
Charles Chambers was a West End landowner and a judge on the Court of Common Pleas from 1719 to 1739.
Reverend James Allen
Reverend James Allen Reverend James Allen was the Congregationalist pastor of First Church in Boston from 1668 to 1710. The church is now located on 66 Marlborough Street. Allen was born in Hampshire, England in 1632 to the town’s minister. He graduated from Emmanuel College (BA) and Oxford University (Masters) and held religious and academic…
John Staniford
John Staniford was a New Fields (now West End) land owner and decon who lived from 1678 to 1752. He built Staniford Street and Lynde Street, and is the namesake of the former.
Thomas Hodson’s Gravel Quarry and the Reshaping of Beacon Hill
Thomas Hodson’s quarry extracted gravel from the north slope of Beacon Hill in the middle of the eighteenth century. This provoked public outrage, but the excavation of Beacon Hill for the expansion of Boston was too difficult to stop.