Beacon Hill is settled by William Blackstone.

(Sept.) The Anglican minister and former member of the Weymouth settlement, subsequently described by Walter Muir Whitehill as, “A bachelor with a taste for his own company,” builds a log cabin near today’s 50 Beacon Street. Blackstone stocks his library with nearly 200 volumes (prompting Van Wyck Brooks to subsequently write, “There had been books on the slope of Beacon Hill when the wolves still howled on the summit”), cultivates a garden and an apple orchard, and is said to indulge in strong drink, fraternize with Native Americans, and ride his white bull along the shore. He sells most of his property to the Massachusetts Bay Company and leaves Boston in 1634.*