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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROXBURY , formerly a See also:

city of See also:Norfolk See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, U.S.A., situated between See also:Boston and See also:Dorchester, but since 1868 a See also:part of Boston. It is primarily a residential See also:district. Among its institutions are the Roxbury Latin School, established in 1645,1 the Fellowes See also:Athenaeum (a part of the Roxbury See also:branch of the Boston Public Library), with about 26,000 volumes in 1909, and the New See also:England See also:Hospital for See also:Women and See also:Children (1863), the New England Baptist Hospital (1893), the Woman's Charity See also:Club Hospital (189o), the Roxbury Homoeopathic Dispensary (1886), the Roxbury See also:Home for Children and Aged Women (1856), a Home for Aged Couples (1884) and the Massachusetts Home for Intemperate Women (1879). On See also:Mount Bellevue, in See also:West Roxbury (set apart from Roxbury in 1851 and annexed to Boston in 1873), there is an See also:observatory (erected in 1869 by the city of Boston as a stand-See also:pipe for the high service See also:water See also:supply). Among the manufactures of the district are See also:cotton and woollen goods, cordage, carpets, shoes and foundry products. The See also:town of Roxbury (at first usually spelled Rocksbury) was founded in 163o by some of the Puritan immigrants who came with See also:Governor See also:John See also:Winthrop; the settlers were led by See also:William Pynchon, who in 1636 led a party from here and founded See also:Springfield, See also:Mass. At the home of Rev See also:Thomas Welde (d. 1662), the first See also:minister, See also:Anne See also:Hutchinson (q.v.) was held in custody during the See also:winter of 1637–38. Associated as teacher with Welde and his successors, See also:Samuel Danforth and See also:Nehemiah See also:Walter, was John See also:Eliot, the apostle to the See also:Indians, who removed to Roxbury in 1632 and died here in 1690. Roxbury was the home also of Thomas See also:Dudley, of his son See also:Joseph and of his See also:grandson See also:Paul; of See also:Robert Calef (d. 1719), the See also:leader of the opposition to the See also:witchcraft craze; of See also:General Joseph See also:Warren, and of William Eustis (1753-1825), who was U.S. secretary of See also:war (1809–12), minister to the See also:Netherlands (1814–18), and governor of Massachusetts (r823–25); and from 1837 to 1845 See also:Theodore See also:Parker was the pastor of the Unitarian See also:Church of West Roxbury. Of See also:special See also:interest in the old Roxbury See also:burial-ground is the " Ministers' See also:Tomb," containing the remains of John Eliot, and the tomb of the Dudleys.

West Roxbury was the See also:

scene of the See also:Brook See also:Farm experiment (see BROOK FARM). Roxbury was chartered as a city in 1846. See F. S. See also:Drake, The Town of Roxbury, its Memorable Persons and Places (Boston, 1878 and 1905).

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