Thompson Island

I've never done any of them either, Wiggy.

There's Thompson Island.

Nope.

Thompson Island, I had a school trip there also in eighth grade when I went to Hill Junior High School.

And we had to leave early because somebody got busted with weed.

And it wasn't me.

By around 1625 or 1626, he'd made the decision to relocate his family southward to a fertile, 170-acre island in what would become Boston Harbor.

That island still bears his name today, Thompson Island.

Thompson's move to the island made him and his family among the very first European settlers of what would eventually become Boston.

He arrived four years before the Great Puritan Migration of 1630 brought 20,000 English settlers flooding into the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Mason took the southern portion and named it New Hampshire, after the English county of Hampshire.

Gorges claimed what became the province of Maine.

Thompson's son, John, later had to fight a legal battle to recover ownership of Thompson Island from the town of Dorchester, which had absorbed it.

He eventually succeeded, though the island later passed to other hands, and Thompson himself would largely disappear from the history books as he did in life.