Show BOSTON CORNER HAS A HISTORY WAS GIVEN AWAY Change of or II M I J. J Milts to w X York J hl Va Vit Not t Voluntary Boston Corner now a part of ot NewYork New Xe York state was p part of at tel Its Is change chang of or al allegiance was no not voluntary but bul was thrust upon uon U. U In time the early colonial colomal days cas ca's Ia Massachusetts cUs claimed everything c from Cupo Cape Cot Cod wc westward to the Western ocean I Iwas It I was a good claim caim to hold hol so Ion long on as its rS tin the lh Dutch were wr In New cw York put but Int when the tho h took their places un and the valley of or th the Hudson became tributary to the house of or York dissension aro arose e over the double ownership of Albany Ten jen Yta years before belore the re revolutionary war warthe warthe warthe the two t colonies endeavored to straighten I the affair out by appointing slon- slon er who met to timid find nd a I mutually acceptable acceptable accept accept- able boundary New York claimed everything everything every every- thing to the HIP Connecticut rivet river Massachusetts s e f everything to the Pacific ocean and then ea each h contestant lant protesting that In fact nil all at the land was his th they began malin making what the they considered were wem i In tn the ft ir- ir h r- r rou ou- ou 11 ii I affair The rho came r near l enough finally to agree on the starting point of or the line lino at the lit southwest t cornN but bUl could not decide whether or not it I should parallel the Hudson So they gave e a It up revolution It referred to lo A hI r was congress and a new commission slon appointed ap- ap pointed and this time Ume a boundary was definitely d decided upon h beginning at a aon Pill joint on th the thit Massachusetts Con Massachusetts Connecticut lOt lint produced 20 miles mies from the Ju Hudson on and extending northeasterly In tn a straight line ine Inc parallel with wih the tIme general generl trend of or orth th the river The line so adopted followed closely the western slope of ot the time Taconic mountains moun moun- alas leaving the time volley valley land In New NewYork NewYork York state At t the southwest st t angle angie how- how over ever th the mountains receded and left lef about 3 acres of or bottoms in las achu- achu Sets This little section which became Boston Boston Bos Boa ton tori Corner was inaccessible from the eastern side of or the mountains Its ls inhabitants In- In the to habitants did not go to village viage vote nor were the they gO molested by tux tax col- col and constables They came canu to sess jo-sess an unsavory nor reputation for tor lawlessness law law- throughout that region relon Eventually I al ally time the tt little cornet corner OrN became the lie for tor evildoers Officers from lom Massachusetts setta could not get g-ct over oer th time the mountains In n time Pine and New York had tutU no lou Ion tOD At last In L 5 when attains affairs had reached d tl-i. tl worst since John Morris Morris- fC sey 50 the most mot noted pugilist of or the time and amid a n man named Sullivan an met there to ht championship of oC decide the heavyweight the he count country and a crowd went up from New York lori to see sec se the meeting They he fought with bare Lare knuckles and t the fight most brutal and horrible Their seconds eventually joined In an and a general gen gene eral crl and disgraceful melee resulted This was too much for tor Massachusetts Ia which had for COI time been icen considering consider consider- ing ng a special poU police to bring order there The legislature o of isi IN pa passed sed a bill bi fie which became a law the next yc r. ceding about 1000 acres Including Boston DOBlon CornN Corner Cor Cor- net ner to N New w York and New cw York accepted accepted ac ae- ac- ac th the Sl gift C ro Today u Boston DOlton Corner 1 IM is a a peaceful anti and law abiding community grown ro n far away from the iho memory of oC tho those thoat old days daya but butan 1 an any on one who will wi examine a map of or Massachusetts Mas Mas- will find th time the northwest s' s comer corner wi I chopped off of at an nn odd an anide le th the visible sign of th the giving away of ot her bad bac little Youths Youths' Youths Youths' Companion |