Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . incumbent. Excepting the year1836, when Moses Gill and his brother-in-law, Henry Lewis Lawrence, were the land-lords, Mr. Hoar continued in charge untilthe spring of 1843 when he sold out toThomas Treadwell Farnsworth. At thisperiod the house was a temperance Hunt, James Minot Colburn andJoseph Nelson Hoar (a son of the formerlandlord) have since been proprietors a time in recent years the place wasmanaged by three daughters of Mr. Hoarunder the na
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . incumbent. Excepting the year1836, when Moses Gill and his brother-in-law, Henry Lewis Lawrence, were the land-lords, Mr. Hoar continued in charge untilthe spring of 1843 when he sold out toThomas Treadwell Farnsworth. At thisperiod the house was a temperance Hunt, James Minot Colburn andJoseph Nelson Hoar (a son of the formerlandlord) have since been proprietors a time in recent years the place wasmanaged by three daughters of Mr. Hoarunder the name of Central House, but itspresent owner is Charles H. Dodge and itspresent title the Groton Inn. Twinings description of stagecoach travelhaving been quoted, some pages back, itseems only fair to give one or two otherpersons views on this interesting Mellish, who travelled in 1806 did notseem to find it bad: Having taken my leave of a number ofkind friends with whom I had associatedduring my stay in Boston, I engaged a pas-sage by the mail stage for New York, andwas called to take my place on the 4th of 328. On the Road September at two oclock in the is the practice here for the driver to callon the passengers before setting out, and itis attended with a considerable degree ofconvenience to them, particularly when theyset out early in the morning. The mail stageshere are altogether different in construc-tion from the mail coaches in Britain. Theyare long machines hung upon leather braceswith three seats across, of a sufficient lengthto accommodate three persons each, who allsit with their faces towards the horses. Thedriver sits under cover without any divisionbetween him and the passengers; and thereis room for a person to sit on each side ofhim. The driver, by the post-office regula-tions, must be a white man, and he hascharge of the mail which is placed in a boxbelow his seat. There is no guard. Thepassengers luggage is put below the seats,or tied o
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