English Explanatory Dictionary

Blackstone River

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Word forms

Blackstone River

Etymology

Named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623, and became the first European settler of present-day Boston in 1625. He relocated again, to Rhode Island in 1635 and built his home on the river, in what would become Cumberland.

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