First Baptist Church in Boston (first) is dedicated.

The wooden, two-story, four-gabled building is located near today’s 80 Salem Street. The first Baptist church in Boston, the congregation was established in Charlestown on March 28, 1666. It met secretly in private homes in Charlestown, then on Noddles Island, and then in a rented home in Boston because it was not allowed to practice openly. Thomas Gould is the first minister. The church is closed and its doors nailed shut by order of the General Court on March 8, 1680, but soon allowed to reopen. A new building (second) is built on the same site in 1771.* A new church (third) is built in 1829,* another (fourth) on Beacon Hill in 1855,* another (fifth) in the South End, and the current church building (sixth) in the Back Bay in 1882.*