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Boston Township

Boston Township contains three villages— Peninsula, Boston Mills and Everett. The earliest settlers were also from Connecticut. In 1805, the purchasers of the holdings of the Connecticut Land Company sent many surveying corps into Summit County for the purpose of allotting the lands. In this year Alfred Wolcott, Jamas Stanford. John Teale and Samuel Ewart came into Boston Township for the purpose of making a survey. ₁

Boston, it is known in the survey as Town 4, Range XI. of the Western Reserve. The Cuyahoga winds a zigzag course from about a mile east of the south-west corner of the township to within about a half a mile of the center, thence west of north to a little over a mile of the north-west corner, and varies in width from a few rods to a mile.

The township was organized in 1811, the first election being held in the house of Timothy Bishop. Mr. James Stanford proposed the name Boston which was adopted. The first settlement was made in March 1806, by Alfred Wolcott, John Teal and Samuel Ewart who built a log shanty on the present site of Boston Village cemetery.

the first male child born in the township was Andrew J. Stanford, March 27, 1806; the first girl, Melinda Wolcott, April 14, 1807. Death claimed its first victim June 9, 1808, in the person of Mary Ann Post, and William Carter and Elizabeth Mays celebrated the pioneer wedding, July 29, 1812.

Cemeteries in Boston Township

CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
EDITED AND COMPILED BY: WILLIAM B. DOYLE,
PUBLISHED BY: BIOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO, ILL. 1908, p 102

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