Market Day is established.

(OS-3/4) Following the tradition in England, the Court of Assistants directs that a market day shall be kept at Boston every Thursday, on which days the Public Lecture shall be held. The first market place in Boston, it is located on the site of today’s Old State House. Historian Esther Forbes later how on market days, “Long before sunrise, country people streamed towards the narrow neck. The town was awakened by the rattle of wooden wheels, the hooves of horses, the cries of drovers . . . (bringing in) prodigious sacks of grain, slaughtered hens, hams, firkins of butter.”