History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . t south of thejunction with Depot street. This refuge from danger became grad-ually and naturally a house for entertainment. Thither were bornethe slain in the fight with Indians on the Hopkinton road, August 11,1746, an indication that its shelter was then a place of common ren-dezvous. Osgood died in 1757, and was succeeded by his widow,who kept tavern there, and afterward where is now Exchange build-ing, until about 1798, and history has given to her fir
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . t south of thejunction with Depot street. This refuge from danger became grad-ually and naturally a house for entertainment. Thither were bornethe slain in the fight with Indians on the Hopkinton road, August 11,1746, an indication that its shelter was then a place of common ren-dezvous. Osgood died in 1757, and was succeeded by his widow,who kept tavern there, and afterward where is now Exchange build-ing, until about 1798, and history has given to her firesides a con-vivial as well as colonial reputation. The house which was the firstOsgood tavern was burned August 17, 1851. Asa McFarland, in anarticle entitled Memorials of Olden Time, printed in the Statesmanof February 11, 1815, says he was told by an old citizen that thePrince de Talleyrand was in Concord, a lodger at the Osgood tavern,several days during his exile from France, 1793-95. There was a tavern long ago at the corner of North Main andChurch streets, kept by Benjamin Hannaford, who dwelt there as 854 HISTORY OF Butters Tavern. early as 1777, and owned that or neighboring property in he was a good citizen is shown by the fact that in the latteryear he was a contributor toward building a court house large enoughto hold the great and general court. He was a carpenter as well as alandlord, and owned outlying farming lands. In 1795 he boughtreal estate at the north corner of North State and Walker streets,kept public house there, and died in 1810. The earliest South end tavern was that of Samuel Butters, a por-tion of which remains, numbered 131 South Main street. The Con-cord Gazette of September 18,1810, mentions it as havingthen been a tavern since the years of teaming,boating, and staging, it held adesirable location, and was athriving inn. It was calledusually by the name of its suc-cessive landlords, who were, asnearly as can be asc
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