Eliot (John) School (first) is established.

Founded by 38 residents of the Jamaica or Pond Plain area of Roxbury, it is subsequently located in two buildings near today’s 766 Centre Street. The fourth oldest school in the U.S., it is supported by various bequests, including one from Rev. John Eliot to be used, “For the teaching and instructing of the children of that end of the town (together with such negroes or Indians as may or shall come to said school).” The first school to combine reading and writing in Boston, it moves to the corner of Centre and Green Streets (second) in 1787,* and to its current building (third) on Eliot Street in 1832.*