Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ne has immortal made. For, has not he immortal made this mostfascinating of all old taverns? 207 CHAPTER X ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND BEAST Those of us who have been brought upwith the idea that our Puritan ancestors likedto be uncomfortable have only to read Sam-uel SewaUs Diary to be fully persuaded ofthe contrary. Sewall, to be sure, was ofredder blood than many men of his time;and yet his delight in roast fowl at Comp-tons (an Ipswich inn very noted in itsday) and
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ne has immortal made. For, has not he immortal made this mostfascinating of all old taverns? 207 CHAPTER X ENTERTAINMENT FOR MAN AND BEAST Those of us who have been brought upwith the idea that our Puritan ancestors likedto be uncomfortable have only to read Sam-uel SewaUs Diary to be fully persuaded ofthe contrary. Sewall, to be sure, was ofredder blood than many men of his time;and yet his delight in roast fowl at Comp-tons (an Ipswich inn very noted in itsday) and in the almonds tendered him bythe ladies of his roving fancy did not pre-vent him from standing up in the Old SouthChurch to confess his sin in having accepted spectral evidence at the trial of thewitches, nor from keeping one day annuallyfor fast and prayer in remembrance of thatevent. No, Puritans both believed deeplyand enjoyed deeply. Study of tavern billsmakes it quite clear that they keenly appre-ciated such comfort as could be had in thosedays. 208 m. 1 •^4 J «;>??•...7 ^—? ^^^ if 1 WINN HOUSE, WOBURN. PAXTON INN, PAXTON Entertainment for Man and Beast So, by no illogical sequence, it was con-sidered an honour to a Puritan to keep agood tavern. John Adams, travellingthrough Connecticut in 1771, found thatLandlord Pease was the great man of thetown; their representative &C as well astavern-keeper, and just returned from theGeneral Assembly at Hartford. was proud to keep a Woburn tavernwith his family arms displayed as a sign-board. General Paxton was glad to have hisportrait painted on the sign of the inn namedafter him, and Dr. Nathaniel Ames of Ded-ham, Massachusetts, was a person of suchposition that it is hard to tell whether oneshould characterize him as a druggist, analmanack-maker or an inn-keeper. Thealmanac was a capital advertisement for hishouse, at any rate, — as witness the follow-ing in the issue for 1751: ADVERTISEMENT These are to si
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