Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.[1] Originally called Mishawum by the Massachusett tribe, it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves, one of its earliest settlers, in the reign of Charles I of England. It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Daniel Goble was the only New England colonist to be executed for murdering friendly Indians during King Phillip’s War.[21] On 7 August 1676, three Christian Indian women and three children were picking berries at Hurtleberry Hill, in the woods near Concord. They encountered a group of English soldiers who “called to them, exchanged bread and cheese for fruit then moved off.” Four soldiers remained behind: Daniel Goble, his nephew Stephen Goble, Daniel Hoar, and Nathaniel Wilder. Probably Daniel Goble, perhaps aided by his nephew Stephen, murdered the Indians, and “leaving the bodies where they fell—after first stealing their coats—the men rode home.”[22]
21 Hale Pulsipher, Jenny Subjects Unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 149.
22 Ibid., 148.