Born Horncastle Parish Lincolnshire England
5 March 1596
Graduate of Emmanuel College England 1621
First Settler of Shawmut 1625
Near here stood his dwelling
He removed to Rhode Island 1635
where he died May 26 - 1675
"The place of his seclusion
became the seat of a great city"
Placed by the City of Boston 1924 This tablet restored by the Gerorge B. Henerson Foundation