The colonial tavern; a glimpse of New England town life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . ed in the Hack street, at the oi)i)osite the State House. As hishouse was erected i)urix)sely for an Inn,and is well furnished, he tlatters himself itwill afford every Comfort and Accommo-dation to the weary Traveller. He hasalso erected very lari^e and commodiousStabling Sheds for Carriages, and otherOut-iiuildings. The greatest attention will be i)aid tothose who may i)lease to honor him withtheir Comniands, and he will be particu-larly happy in waiting on his old Customersin hi
The colonial tavern; a glimpse of New England town life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . ed in the Hack street, at the oi)i)osite the State House. As hishouse was erected i)urix)sely for an Inn,and is well furnished, he tlatters himself itwill afford every Comfort and Accommo-dation to the weary Traveller. He hasalso erected very lari^e and commodiousStabling Sheds for Carriages, and otherOut-iiuildings. The greatest attention will be i)aid tothose who may i)lease to honor him withtheir Comniands, and he will be particu-larly happy in waiting on his old Customersin his new Situation. The early numbers of the New luiglandnewspapers contain many of these curiousadvertisements, and of the comfortable sur-roundings of these houses, and the goodthings to eat and other things many dis-tinguished persons have left abundant testi-mony. The old tavern signs, however,have mostly disappeared, and are nowseldom seen except among the carefullytreasured relics of by-gone days in the col-lections of museums and historical societies. CHAPTER lY. THK TAVP:RN and TKAININCi DAV. all the busy aiul inii)ortantclays which the tavern saw,the busiest was on Trainin*;Days or Squadron Days, astliey were called in the NewHaven Colony. Ironi earlymorning till nine oclock inthe evening the tavern wasthronged with a jolly, good-natured crowd, brought thither by thefestivities of the day. Training days wereregulated by law, and usually occurredeight times a year, although sj^ecial, extraand voluntary trainings sometimes tookplace, either of the whole military force inthe town or of separate comi)anies of thetrain bands. Tliey were usually held onSaturdays, and all males between sixteenand sixty not physically incapacitated wererequired to perform military sei*\ice. Sat- i lOS Till: TA r/.AX iirday made a i;()C)(l day for tlic trainini;,as the weeks work was i)ractically at anend, and tlie rest and refreshment ofthe Sabbatli was gladly welcomed aftertlie rigors
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