Excerpt from The Blackstone Family: Being Sketches, Biographical and Genealogical of William Blackstone, and His Descendants

Who was William Blackstone? The answer is meagre, but highly interesting to us, indwellers here He was the first white man who made this peninsula his home, and, as we believe, about 224 years ago. He preceded Isaac Johnson and the company from Charlestown, in his occupancy, five or six years. Refer ring to Edward Johnson's Wonder Working Prov' idence, for the first part, and to the early records of'

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