Goodrich (Samuel G.) arrives in Boston.

Born in Ridgefield, Connecticut, he is the son of a minister and his wife, and had worked in publishing in Hartford. In Boston, he settles initially at 626 Centre Street. Goodrich starts and edits a literary magazine called The Token, which publishes the first works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Goodrich goes on to become an author of some 170 children’s books oks (most under the pen name “Peter Parley”) that sell more than eight million copies, and amasses a large amount of property, and builds a new home in 1833.* He serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1837) and Senate (1838-39) and as U.S. Consul to Paris (1850-55). Goodrich dies in New York City on May 9, 1860.