John Singleton Copley marries Susannah Farnham Clarke.

The ceremony takes place at the Brattle Square Church. Rev. Samuel Cooper officiates. The bride is the daughter of Richard Clarke, a wealthy Boston merchant and a Tory. The couple purchases Mount Pleasant, the former 18-acre Cunningham estate near today’s 43 Beacon Street, and moves one of houses, which is renovated to include a studio, in 1770 (1772). Copley leaves Boston in 1774 and the houses are subsequently occupied first by British troops and then by Colonial troops. The buildings are demolished and replaced by a new building in 1819.*