More than one hundred and fifty
"comely and fair houses"
were standing on and near this hill. Among the settlers wholived here were
John Harvard, Ralph Sprague, George Bunker,
Zechariah Symmes, Thomas Lynde
William Frothingham, Edward Gibbons
Thomas Beecher, Robert Hale
John Greene, William Witherell
Edward Johnson and Increase Nowell
Secretary of the Colony
of Massachusetts