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| • | Green Island, in Boston Outer Harbor, is located north of Calf Island, this outcropping of bedrock, called Green Island, is exposed from the east and northeast and contains less than two acres (8,000 m²). Hypocrite Channel is located at the southeast end of the island. There is little soil or plant life here.
In the early 1600s, the island was named for Joseph Green, a well-known merchant, who owned the island during Colonial times. By 1795, the island was known as Borth Brewster Island. During 1845, a fifty year old seaman named Samuel Choat came to green Island and lived here as an independent spirit for the next twenty years. Choat constructed a crude house here and made his living by fishing on the local waters. His main diet was lobster, fish, and mussels. Choat could not be encouraged to leave Green Island, even during the coldest winters.
In 1851, during the storm that destroyed Minots Ledge Light off Cohasset, MA, the tide rose so high that the inhabitants of Green Island had to be rescued by the Boston Pilot boat. In another storm in 1862, Choat's boat was broken up on the rocks surrounding the island. He was taken to Boston, where he purchased another boat and quickly returned to Green Island.
Due to the severity of the cold weather during the winter of 1865, Choat had to be removed from Green Island. He was 70 years of age at the time. On February 8th, Choat was transferred to the almshouse in Bridgewater, MA where he died.
In 1869, Barrel Rock, a massive boulder of Medford granite that was deposited by an ancient glacier just west of Green Island, was removed by Major General Foster.
Today, Green Island is a nesting area for nesting herring and black-backed gulls, comorants, barn swallows, red-winged blackbirds, and rats. South Point is long and gravelly. Access is dangerous. Lobstermen have summer picnics here. There are many dangerous rocks in this area. Green island is a popular location for striped bass fishermen during the summer months.
Source: [wikipedia: green island, boston outer harbor]
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