Datchet House is built.

Built for British Col. Francis Brinley and named for his ancestral home in England, it is located on some 100 landscaped acres near today’s 1545 Tremont Street. After Brinley’s death, the house is purchased by Robert Pierpoint in 1773 and serves as the headquarters of Gen. Artemis Ward during the Revolution. The estate is purchased by Colonial Gen. Henry A.S. Dearborn, who lives here for the next 25 years. The building becomes Franklin Gardens, a popular hostelry, in 1866. Purchased by the Redemptorist Order, it serves as a church beginning in 1869. It is demolished to make way for construction of a rectory and a church in 1871.*