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ROXBURY , formerly a city of Norfolk county, Massachusetts, U.S.A., situated between Boston and Dorchester, but since 1868 a part of Boston. It is primarily a residential district. Among its institutions are the Roxbury Latin School, established in 1645,1 the Fellowes Athenaeum
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supply ). Among the manufactures of the district are cotton
Governor John Winthrop; the settlers were led by William Pynchon, who in 1636 led a party from here and founded Springfield
Nehemiah Walter, was John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians, who removed to Roxbury in 1632 and died here in 1690. Roxbury was the home also of Thomas Dudley, of his son Joseph and of his grandson Paul; of Robert Calef (d. 1719), the leader of the opposition to the witchcraft craze; of General Joseph Warren, and of William Eustis (1753-1825), who was U.S. secretary of war (180912), minister to the Netherlands (181418), and governor of Massachusetts (r82325); and from 1837 to 1845 Theodore Parker was the pastor of the Unitarian Church of West Roxbury. Of special
interest
See F. S. Drake, The Town of Roxbury, its Memorable Persons and Places (Boston, 1878 and 1905). End of Article: ROXBURY If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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