First Church in Boston is established.

Founded by Thomas Dudley, Isaac Johnson, Rev. John Wilson, John Winthrop, and 92 others, the congregation meets initially under the Charlestown Oak on Town Hill (then Fort Hill) in today’s City Square. It is the third church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (after those in Salem and Dorchester). John Wilson is the first minister and serves until his death in 1667, and John Cotton serves as “teaching elder” from 1633 to 1652. The congregation moves to Boston in September 1630, into its first permanent building (first) on State Street in 1632,* to new buildings on Washington Street (second) in 1639* and (third) in 1713.* The congregation becomes Unitarian in 1802, and moves to a new building (fourth) on Chauncy Street in 1808,* and to current location (fifth) on Marlborough Street in 1868* and 1970.* It merges with the Second Church in 1970 and assumes the name First Church in Boston, 1630 in May 2005.