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Little is known of Peter's boyhood. His father, prominent and fairly well-to-do, died in 1719 when Peter was 18, and soon Peter, his brother, Benjamin Jr., and his sister Mary moved to Boston. Their widowed, childless uncle Andrew had become one of New England's wealthiest men through shrewd trading and Boston real estate investments.
Philip Markoff (February 12, 1986 – August 15, 2010) [1] was an American medical student who was charged with the armed robbery and murder of Julissa Brisman in a Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, and two other armed robberies.
Boston Harbor is a large harbor which constitutes the western extremity of Massachusetts Bay. The harbor is sheltered from Massachusetts Bay and the open Atlantic Ocean by a combination of the Winthrop Peninsula and Deer Island to the north, the hooked Nantasket Peninsula and Point Allerton to the south, and the harbor islands in the middle.
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The harbor is fed by the waters of the Hudson River (historically called the North River as it passes Manhattan), as well as the Gowanus Canal.It is connected to Lower New York Bay by the Narrows, to Newark Bay by the Kill Van Kull, and to Long Island Sound by the East River, which, despite its name, is actually a tidal strait.
Long Island, Boston Harbor, 2008. Long Island is located in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The island is part of the City of Boston, [1] [2] and of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. The island is 1.75 miles (2.82 km) long and covers 225 acres (0.9 km 2).
The Boston Bar Association (BBA) is a volunteer non-governmental organization in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.With headquarters located at 16 Beacon Street in the historic Chester Harding House, across from the Massachusetts State House on Beacon Hill, the BBA has 13,000 [1] members drawn from private practice, corporations, government agencies, legal aid organizations, the courts and ...
The Boston Harbor Association (TBHA) was a harbor advocacy group in Boston, Massachusetts. TBHA's goal was "to promote a clean, alive, and accessible Boston Harbor " through environmental protection programs and harbor activities, as well as providing public access to the harbor through the HarborWalk.