Library opens in Boston.

(ca.) It is located in an East Room of the Town House. The first public library in Boston, it was established, according to Justin Winsor, when “the town, or possibly the colony, established in Boston a collection of books for public use sometime before the Indian outbreak of 1675.” Winsor speculates that this library was probably the repository of the “ancient books” described as being destroyed when the Town House burns in 1747.