Boston shoemakers establish a trade association.

General Court votes to allow “the shoomakers of Boston [to] assemble and meet together in Boston at such . . . times as they shall appoynt.” Subsequently seen as the first labor organization in the Colonies, it is followed later in the in the year by one formed by Boston coopers that becomes the first trade to achieve guild status. Both draw up list of rates, which are called “just prices,” as well as work rules for their respective trades. Leather workers and shoemakers achieve guild status later in the year.