WALKING TOUR! 1630: From Shawmut to Boston

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A walking tour follows the Puritans’ footsteps through places where they lived, worshipped, and argued.

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You learned all about the Puritans at our Nov 7 symposium. Now walk in their footsteps to see where they lived, loved, prayed and argued. The third offering in our fabulous collection of Puritan scholarship and knowledge, the PHB walking tour 1630: From Shawmut to Boston takes you on the byways and to the sites of early Puritans. Places are limited, so sign up now! FREE TO ATTENDEES OF THE PURITANS IN THE 21ST CENTURY SYMPOSIUM! (Please register using the 'donate' ticket.) Our walking tour, 1630: From Shawmut to Boston, is a story of foundations: the founding of the English colony on Native land, starting in what was Shawmut; the Puritan women and men who founded the Massachusetts colony; and the foundations laid for American government, religion and society. We start in 1630 on the slopes of the Shawmut peninsula. The English Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony looked to create an ideal society as seen through their own – and no one else’s – eyes. Boston, as they renamed the place, became its center. Meet the people, places and ideas that turned Shawmut into Boston. Among them are John Winthrop, first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; his rival, John Endicott; Anne Hutchinson, who followed her mentor, the Rev. John Cotton, over the Atlantic; and William Blackstone, owner of an enormous library, Cambridge University alumni along with John Winthrop, and the first white colonizer of the Shawmut peninsula.

Downtown Boston