Serendipity language was by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a (lost) painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, "The Three Princes of Serendip". The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of". The name comes from "Serendip", an old name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon), hence "Sarandib" by Arab traders. It is derived from the Sanskrit "Siṃhaladvīpaḥ" (Siṃhalaḥ, Sri Lanka + dvīpaḥ, island).
Walpole, Massachusetts in the Revolution works on Dorchester Heights, which forced Gen. Howe to evacuate Boston on March 17. The men were on duty as late as the following June, and were stationed in Hull during the summer and fall. On April 5, 1776, Gen. Washington passed through Walpole on his way to New York. The story goes that Washington passed through present-day Lincoln Road, stopped at the Smith household where Zilpha Smith gave Washington a drink of water from a gourd. On May 10, 1776, Walpole voted unanimously "that, if the Honble Continental Congress should declare these Colonies Independant of ye Kingdom of Great