1706 - 1779
1706
The Third Meeting House is built on the site of the second house.
1721
The cockerel weathervane is built by coppersmith Shem Drowne for the New Brick Church on Hanover Street, Boston.
1757
The Fourth Meeting House (which still stands) is built on the corner of Church Street and Massachusetts Avenue; it is used from 1757 to 1829 until the Unitarian/Congregational controversy.
1774
A Thanksgiving Proclamation is voted on October 22 by the Provincial Congress in the Cambridge Meeting House, the first act of an independent Colonial Legislature.
1779
The Massachusetts Constitution, the world's oldest living constitution, is framed in the Fourth Meeting House.