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Roxbury was formerly named Rocksbury
Roxbury was formerly named Rocksbury
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Roxbury
- Predicate
former_name- Attested by
- Burrage, Walter Lincoln, A guide-book of Boston for physicians
- Attestor kind
- scholar
- Attested since, as stated
- 1906
- Attestation strength
- single source — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- An early spelling, and a statement about the ground.
Evidence
Burrage, Walter Lincoln, A guide-book of Boston for physicians (1906)
It was called Rocksbury or Rocksborough, from the great ledge of rocks running through it, the so-called Roxbury pudding-stone.
Questions this record answers
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Who attests that Roxbury was formerly named Rocksbury?
Burrage, Walter Lincoln, A guide-book of Boston for physicians attests it, as scholar, since 1906. The archive records the attestation strength as single source — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
What evidence does the archive hold for this claim?
1 evidence row supports the claim. The passage carrying the attestation reads: “It was called Rocksbury or Rocksborough, from the great ledge of rocks running through it, the so-called Roxbury pudding-stone.” A claim with no evidence row is served with that fact stated rather than served bare.
Attested by: Burrage, Walter Lincoln, A guide-book of Boston for physicians (1906)
Does the archive say this claim is true?
No. This archive does not adjudicate. It records who attests an assertion, since when, and on what evidence, and it assigns no truth value and no rating. Sibling attestations of this same assertion share the group roxbury-former_name and are served beside it. Variants of one assertion are served together, unranked and unresolved.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
What does the archive hold for Roxbury was formerly named Rocksbury, and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Roxbury was formerly named Rocksbury from Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to Burrage, Walter Lincoln.
Attested by: Internet Archive — Boston texts, retrieved 5 September 2026, under Public domain — published before 1929.
Related records
- about — Roxbury
- derived from — A guide-book of Boston for physicians
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:roxbury-former-name-rocksbury-a-guide-book-of-boston-for-p
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/roxbury-former-name-rocksbury-a-guide-book-of-boston-for-p
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/roxbury-former-name-rocksbury-a-guide-book-of-boston-for-p.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 5 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- Internet Archive — Boston texts — source of record
- License
- Public domain — published before 1929 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 5 September 2026
- Source identifier
- a-guide-book-of-boston-for-physicians#rocksbury
- Attribution
- Burrage, Walter Lincoln
- Rights as stated
- NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT (Internet Archive item rights review), corroborated by the item's own publication date of 1906 — before 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | searched a text the archive itself holds, not a source it merely knows of | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | test | required ONE sentence to carry the name at a word boundary, a naming verb, and the subject — all three, or nothing | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took that sentence unaltered as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |