Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . d from public gaze, He did not bring to view;Nor make a noise town-meeting days, As many people do. Thus undisturbed by anxious cares. His peaceful moments ran;And everybody said he was A fine old gentleman. If, however, you would have fact insteadof poetry concerning old Grimes, see theHistory of Hubbardston. For he was nofictitious character; the ancient roof-tree onthe Gardner road with which he is identifiedhas burned down within the past six months. After the Bal
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . d from public gaze, He did not bring to view;Nor make a noise town-meeting days, As many people do. Thus undisturbed by anxious cares. His peaceful moments ran;And everybody said he was A fine old gentleman. If, however, you would have fact insteadof poetry concerning old Grimes, see theHistory of Hubbardston. For he was nofictitious character; the ancient roof-tree onthe Gardner road with which he is identifiedhas burned down within the past six months. After the Baldwins, father and son, hadpassed to their rewards, the tavern bearingtheir name came into the possession of Cap-tain Aaron Smith, one of the Shrewsburymen who had fought at Bunker Hill and whoafterwards followed Lafayette. When theMarquis came to Worcester in 1824 AaronSmith, then in his eighty-ninth year, marchedfrom his home to greet his old commanderand present to him an elegant cane which hehad carved from a grape-vine brought fromthe Jerseys. It is, however, with CaptainSmiths share in the Shays Rebellion that the 42. The Father of the Turnpike principal interest of his career lies for it was in the court-yard of his tavernthat the rebellious ones had their rendezvousand from that spot they hurled defiance atJudge Ward who then lived in the housedirectly opposite. This insurrectionary movement was nur-tured in Conkeys tavern, Pelham, by Cap-tain Daniel Shays, an adventurous soul wholived within half a mile of that hostelry(built in 1758) and so found it very conve-nient to develop there a plan for resistingwhat seemed to him the tyranny of the saw, as did many another, that thepeople had been made very poor by theenormous expense attending the Revolu-tionary War. And as imprisonments multi-plied for debts which there was small hopeof ever being able to pay he conceived thenotion of stopping all court action and sosetting matters right. He had brooded to
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