Ship Tavern opens.

(OS-3/4) Originally called an “Ordinaire” or “Ordinary,” it is authorized by the Court of Assistants to be operated by Samuel Cole near at today’s 219 Washington Street [227, 239, 283-Mann, 283]. The first tavern in Boston, its price for both food and drink are set by the court. The building is destroyed in the Great Fire of 1711,* and another building is built on the site in 1730.*