1780. (c) The Handel Society of Dartmouth College organized at Hanover, N. H.
1784. A "Harmonic Society" formed about this time at Fredericksburg, Va.
1786. Stoughton (Mass.) Musical Society formed by William Billings, with Squire Elijah Dunbar of Canton as President; probably oldest singing society now in existence in America.
1786. Nov. 9. A society formed in New York City, at Mr. Hulett's rooms, for promoting vocal music.
1787. "Uranian Society" formed in Philadelphia for the improvement of church music. Continued till 1800.
1787. First pipe organ west of the Alleghanies set up in Cookstown (now Fayette City), Pa. Built by Joseph Downer, who was born in Brookline, Mass., 1767 (Jan. 28) and trekked to Pennsylvania with his family. The organ is preserved at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
1788. May 4. A great concert given with an orchestra of fifty and a chorus of two hundred, in the Reformed German Church in Philadelphia, Pa.
1788. "The Musical Society" of New York City established.
1788. Publication of a book entitled "Seven Songs" by F. Hopkinson (1737-1791), the first publication in America of songs by a native composer.
1789. May. 15. Concert given at Salem, Mass., by Gottlieb Graupner in which first mention is made of the use of the oboe (hautbois) in New England.