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Blackstone River
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English
Etymology
Named after William Blackstone (original spelling William Blaxton) who arrived in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623, and became the first European settler of present-day Boston in 1625. He relocated again, to Rhode Island in 1635 and built his home on the river, in what would become Cumberland.
Proper noun
Blackstone River
en river s/Rhode Island and s/Massachusetts.