| 1707/03/00 |
Rev Cotton Mather |
Mentor |
"The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" is published. Boston: Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips, at the brick shop (lost, across from Town House). |
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Raid on Deerfield |
| 1707/03/00 |
Samuel Phillips |
Publisher |
"The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" is published. Boston: Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips, at the brick shop (lost, across from Town House). |
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Raid on Deerfield |
| 1707/03/00 |
Rev John Williams |
Author |
"The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion" is published. Boston: Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips, at the brick shop (lost, across from Town House). |
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Raid on Deerfield |
| 1712/00/00 |
Samuel Phillips |
Work |
Samuel Phillips buys the land opposite the Town House where his brick shop formerly stood, erects a new building and establishes his oldest son in the business. |
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| 1713/00/00 |
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Brick State House opens, replacing the wooden Town House destroyed in the fire of 1711, becomes the seat of provincial government |
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| 1740/03/00 |
Deacon Samuel Adams |
Bank Officer |
The Committee of the General Court, appointed to investigate the Landbank scheme and the Silver Scheme, reports unfavorably on the Land Bank. The Massachusetts House votes to defer a decision until May and prohibits both groups from issuing loans. |
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Land Bank, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| 1740/05/00 |
Jonathan Belcher |
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay |
The Governor Belcher and Council are hostile to mortgage backed loans, which is available to more citizens, but are in favor of bills back by silver as organized by wealthy Boston merchants. The Massachusetts House supports mortgage bank schemes. |
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Land Bank, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| 1741/05/27 |
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A new Assembly meets to make a decision on granting a charter to the Land Bank, but as the Assembly is evidently in favor of the Bank Governor Belcher dissolves it and orders a new election. |
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Land Bank, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| 1747/00/00 |
Robert Twelves |
Architect |
The current Old State House is built in 1747 after a fire destroys the interior and a portion of the brick walls. Attributed to Robert Twelves, the High Georgian style suggests that the State House was designed by a trained British architect. |
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| 1769/06/00 |
Sir Francis Bernard |
Governor |
After the British Army aim a cannon at the State House door, Governor Francis Bernard adjourns the Great and General Court at Harvard College in Cambridge. |
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| 1770/02/26 |
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Christopher Seider's cortege passes the Town House where the governor and council meet. |
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Death of Christopher Seider |
| 1770/03/05 |
Henry Knox |
Witness |
British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House |
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American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt |
| 1770/03/05 |
Henry Knox |
Witness |
British Regulars shoot American colonist, killing five and injuring six, in front of the old State House |
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Boston Massacre |
| 1776/03/17 |
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Massachusetts legislators return to as the Statehouse located at the intersection of State and Washington streets. |
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| 1776/07/18 |
William Greenleaf |
Work |
Sheriff William Greenleaf proclaims the Declaration of Independence to Bostonians from the balcony of the State House which is received with great joy, expressed by three huzzas from the great concourse of people assembled for the occasion. |
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| 1776/07/18 |
John Quincy Adams |
Witness |
Two boys, John Q Adams and William Cranch, about ages 8 and 10, wish to see Sheriff William Greenleaf read the Declaration of Independence from the balcony of the State House. Much to their delight, two gentlemen raise them on their shoulders. |
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| 1780/10/25 |
John Hancock |
Governor |
John Hancock is inaugurated as the first Commonwealth Governor in the State House Council Chamber. |
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| 1798/07/11 |
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The Commonwealth transfers the legislature from the Old State House to the new Massachusetts Statehouse with grand ceremony. |
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| 1830/00/00 |
Isaiah Rogers |
Architect |
Isaiah Rogers remodels the Old State House interior in a Greek Revival style, adding the spiral staircase that remains today. From 1830 to 1841, the building is used as Boston's city hall. |
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| 1835/10/21 |
William Lloyd Garrison |
Vocation |
Mayor Theodore Lyman Jr gives refuge to William Garrison, the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator, who was being chased by a violent mob. Garrison was kept safe in the Old State House until being driven to the Leverett Street Jail (lost). |
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| 1881/00/00 |
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Bostonian Society is established at the dawn of the historic preservation movement, to rescue the Old State House from threatened demolition, and to preserve it on-site when an offer from Chicago's citizens proposed that it be moved to Lake Michigan. |
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