Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ness hits on, which reason andsanity could not so prosperously be deliv-ered of, as when, appearing one day at themill with a sack of corn to be ground, hereplied to the millers query what he knew, Some things I know, and some things Idont know. I know the millers hogs growfat but I dont know whose corn they fat on. After a long and varied career the BellTavern was swept away by fire in 1867. One of the landlords at the Bell had beena Mr. Purcell whose widow afterward
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ness hits on, which reason andsanity could not so prosperously be deliv-ered of, as when, appearing one day at themill with a sack of corn to be ground, hereplied to the millers query what he knew, Some things I know, and some things Idont know. I know the millers hogs growfat but I dont know whose corn they fat on. After a long and varied career the BellTavern was swept away by fire in 1867. One of the landlords at the Bell had beena Mr. Purcell whose widow afterwards keptthe Portsmouth boarding-house with whichthe career of John Paul Jones is bound June 23, 1779 it was resolved in Con-gress that Robert Morris should be au-thorized to take measures for speedilylaunching and equipping for sea the Amer-ica, then on the stocks at Portsmouth,N. H.; on the 26th John Paul Jones wasunanimously selected to command at once proceeded to Portsmouth,but found the America only half built in-stead of almost ready to be launched. Hewas under the necessity, therefore, of settling 306. I Portsmouth Publicans and Guests down for quite a stay, pending the comple-tion of his vessel, and the house in whichhe took up his quarters is the one on Middlestreet now known as the Lord house. There were great doings in this house andout of it while the son of a Scotch gardenersuperintended the construction of his hint of his social activities at this timemay be gained from The Tory Loverof Sarah Orne Jewett; two years before hehad been the hero of that historic quilting-party during which Miss Mary Langdonand her friends made from pieces of theirbest silk gowns the first edition of thestars and stripes that Europe ever saw, andthe first to be saluted by the guns of a Eu-ropean naval power. This very flag, indeed,it was which served as the winding sheetfor the sixty brave men who gave their livesthat the Bonhomme Richard should conquerthe Serap
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