History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . Mks. Howes Tavern. TOWN OF RICHMOND. l6: Cheney place, now owned by St. Clair, was prob-ably designed and used as a tavern by Capt. OliverCapron, as his son Oliver was licensed as inn-keeperto sell liquors in 1796. Nathaniel A. Bowen had a store, and was licensedalso as taverner from 1800 to 1815. Joseph Cass, who lived on the Henry Ingalls place,was an inn-keeper previous to 1827 ; also DavidHolbrook, who owned the farm next north of thePeleg Taft place, had an inn-keepers license. STORES AND
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . Mks. Howes Tavern. TOWN OF RICHMOND. l6: Cheney place, now owned by St. Clair, was prob-ably designed and used as a tavern by Capt. OliverCapron, as his son Oliver was licensed as inn-keeperto sell liquors in 1796. Nathaniel A. Bowen had a store, and was licensedalso as taverner from 1800 to 1815. Joseph Cass, who lived on the Henry Ingalls place,was an inn-keeper previous to 1827 ; also DavidHolbrook, who owned the farm next north of thePeleg Taft place, had an inn-keepers license. STORES AND STORE-KEEPERS. It is quite probable that the first store in town waskept by Daniel Cass, sr., in his house, which waslarge and especially arranged for store Jazaniah Barrett, who became his successor in 1793,carried on an extensive business there until he soldto Peregrine Wheeler, about 1803, and he removed toDanby, Vermont. The old house was demolishedabout 1828 to give place to the house now occupiedby Jonas Wheeler. James Cook established a store quite early in thenorth part, in the house afterwards occupied by James 166 HISTORY OF THE Buffum, and removed by Edson Starkey, Esq., tomake room for his present residence. This store waswell patronized until about 1800. William Cook,the father of James, probably, preceded him in thebusiness. The first store in the middle of the town wasestablished about 1796, by Jedediah Buftum, with hisson William in charge, who became insane about1805, when the business was continued by JosiahRawson until 1808, and by Jonathan Rawson, Esq.,and Uberto Bowen until Jan. 9, 1853, when the samewas burned and has never been rebuilt. For morethan fifty years this store was the centre of a largetrade, and was alwa
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