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Boston was first made a town in 1630 and was made a city in 1822. It is one of America's oldest cities, with a rich economic and social history. Boston has since become the economic and cultural hub of New England. Boston was founded on September 17, 1630, by Puritan colonists from England.

The first person  to settle in Boston was the Reverend William Blackstone. He came by himself in 1629. A year later, John Winthrop and his Puritan settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, arrived to the north in Salem.

On September 17, 1630, Winthrop decided to make Shawmut a permanent settlement and renamed it Boston, after his hometown in Lincolnshire England. Winthrop and his Puritan settlers left England to escape religious persecution.