Town Gallows is erected on Boston Neck.

The gallows are built just south of today’s East Berkeley Street, adjacent to what comes to be called Gallows Bay, where the bodies of those executed are deposited. Samuel Adams Drake later writes, “After all, it must be admitted that for this particular mode of capital punishment the ‘Neck’ was a peculiarly appropriate place.” The gallows are moved to just east of East Berkeley Street, to the area that becomes Garland Street, in 1817, and remain in use until April 25, 1822, when they are moved to the Leverett Street Jail.