Meet the American who first planted apples in the colonies: William Blaxton, eccentric settler
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William Blaxton, an eccentric loner and Anglican minister, settled Boston before the Puritans and Rhode Island before Roger Williams — and planted the first apple orchards in America.
"I looked to have dwelt with my orchards and my books in undisturbed solitude." For several years before Winthrop came in 1630, William Blaxton constituted the entire population of Boston. Apple experts say the earliest known American varieties likely descended from Blackstone’s Boston fruit trees. "Apples teach us what it means to be alive and joyful on earth." — Apple expert and author John Bunker Apples quickly became a symbol of American bounty. Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
A bookish and eccentric loner, the early English settler nurtured what historians believe were the first apple orchards in what's now the U.S. in present-day Boston in the 1620s. His name Blaxton is often modernized as Blackstone.
A true pioneer, he settled Boston five years before the Puritans — and Rhode Island a year before Roger Williams.
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