First Universalist Church (first) is built.

It is located near today’s 332 Hanover Street. The congregation was established by members who left the Old North Church and met initially in the former Tenth Congregational Church. George Richards is the first minister. He is succeeded by John Murray, who founded the first Universalist church in the U.S. in Gloucester in 1779, and serves as pastor from 1793 until 1809. The church is replaced by a brick structure (second) on the same site in 1838.* The congregation is dissolved and the building is sold to the Baptist Bethel Society in 1864. It is used today as a community health center