Mass Meeting at the Old South Meeting House
- When
- 1768
- Where
- Old South Meeting House, corner of Washington and Milk Streets, Boston
- Part of
- Boston Harbor Mass Meeting
The legacy record describes Bostonians assembling at the Old South Meeting House to back a petition asking the British to remove a ship obstructing navigation in Boston Harbor.
The legacy record describes a mass meeting held in the Old South Meeting House, the Third Church's meeting house at the corner of Washington and Milk Streets in Boston, where the congregation had gathered since 1729. According to that record, the gathering supported a petition demanding that the British remove a ship that had been hindering navigation in Boston Harbor, and it characterizes the meeting as the largest mass meeting held in New England up to that time, dated to June 14, 1768. No supplied passage confirms the meeting or that date, so the day is treated as unverified within the year 1768.
Sources
- Old South Church Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-03
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