Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . peopleconducted their games and sports, and here,too, the veterans of the French and Indianwars long made their boasts of valour. Greenwich, Connecticut, has a Revolu-tionary tavern of quite unusual interest, forit was from here that General Israel Put-nam, *old Put, rushed out (in 1779) withhis face half shaved, to take that daring ridedown the stone steps, the story of which isone of our most cherished American tradi-tions. In those days the house was the IsraelKnap
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . peopleconducted their games and sports, and here,too, the veterans of the French and Indianwars long made their boasts of valour. Greenwich, Connecticut, has a Revolu-tionary tavern of quite unusual interest, forit was from here that General Israel Put-nam, *old Put, rushed out (in 1779) withhis face half shaved, to take that daring ridedown the stone steps, the story of which isone of our most cherished American tradi-tions. In those days the house was the IsraelKnapp Tavern, one of the most popular hos-telries on the main road between Boston andNew York. Along this road Sir EdmundAndros journeyed to take his seat as theGovernor of New England in 1686; in1775 a messenger bearing the news of Lex-ington spurred his horse past the inn, andWashington and Lafayette were only a fewof the others who made the highway his-torically famous by passing over it. To-dayautomobiles by the score speed along hereevery hour and their passengers stop for re-freshment at the Putnam Cottage tea-room, 114. ARNOLDS TAVERN, WEYMOUTH 1 fyBfe9f J .jd ?PHr^tt.:^. m Ts^^y****-* 4.« wmm —^i»^^^ ^^^^pl HP^^^ SAWTELLS TAVERN, SHIRLEY Some Revolutionary Taverns even as their ancestors were wont to do atIsrael Knapps taproom. The house probably dates back two hun-dred years. Certainly the land on which itstands was bought in 1692 by one TimothyKnapp, and the interested student may findin the Greenwich land records the followingdeed, dated 1729: Know all men by these presents that ITimothy Knap of Greenwich in the Countyof fairfield & Colony of Connecticut for yelove good will & fatherly afection which Ihave and do bear to my loving & dutiful sonIsrael Knap of the same place County andColony aforesd do fully freely & absolutelygive & grant unto my aforesd son IsraelKnap his heirs excrs or admrs for ever soitinpearsal or pearsals of land within ye boundsof greenwich the
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