Matthew Boon

Boon originally resided in Charlestown, Massachusetts before moving to the area which is now Stow around 1660 and building a farm along the pond there.

[1] Boon supposedly traded a jack knife to the local Nipmuc people for the right to reside on the land there.

Settler John Kettell joined Boon around this same time, and the small settlement became known as Pompositticut Plantation.

During King Philip's War in mid-February 1676 Boon and his family were sheltering at a garrison house in Sudbury, Massachusetts, but Boon and his son and a Thomas Plympton returned to his farm for provisions in an ox cart when he was alleged killed by Native Americans in the area between his pond and White's Pond.

In 1883, the Town of Stow dedicated a monument near Lake Boon to mark the supposed spot of his home on a hill off what is now Barton Road.