Notable Personages
- Thomas Hooker establishes the first Meeting House in 1633.
- The General Court of Massachusetts banished Anne Hutchinson from Massachusetts during sessions held in the first Meeting House in 1637.
- U.S. President George Washington worshiped in the fourth Meeting House in 1775.
- Edward Everett received the General Marquis de La Fayette with an address of welcome in 1825.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson gave his Phi Beta Kappa oration on "The American Scholar" in 1837.
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