Matthew Boon (died 1676) was the first English settler in what is now Stow, Massachusetts. After his murder in 1676 by Native Americans, he became the namesake of what is now Lake Boon, and Henry David Thoreau wrote about his death in the nineteenth century. * Reverse of Boon's Monument near 40 Barton Road in Stow Massachusetts * Granite marker pointing to the Boon Monument about 150 feet from the road in Stow Massachusetts