James Lovel is named assistant headmaster of Boston Latin School.

A Whig, he is the son headmaster John Lovell, a Loyalist. This prompts charges that each man attempts to influence students political leanings. Arthur Brayley later writes, “the little school divided in its allegiance, its affections, and its politics between its two teachers. Each sitting at opposite ends of the room poured into young minds what he could from the classics of the empire, or the historians of the republic, the lessons of absolutism or of liberalism.”