Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ices formerly charged at this houseare interesting. When ordinaries were firstestablished in Concord a meal cost a six-pence, but in 1779 it was enacted in a neigh-bouring town that there, — and very likelyhere, also, A mug of West India flip should cost20 pence. A mug of New England flip should cost12 pence. A good dinner should cost 12 pence. ^ Breakfast and supper, each, should cost15 pence. Lodging should cost 4 pence.^ At the Munroe Tavern in Lexington thebrutali
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . ices formerly charged at this houseare interesting. When ordinaries were firstestablished in Concord a meal cost a six-pence, but in 1779 it was enacted in a neigh-bouring town that there, — and very likelyhere, also, A mug of West India flip should cost20 pence. A mug of New England flip should cost12 pence. A good dinner should cost 12 pence. ^ Breakfast and supper, each, should cost15 pence. Lodging should cost 4 pence.^ At the Munroe Tavern in Lexington thebrutality which disgraces the English sol-diery of April 19, 177s, first became evi-dent. Percy reached this tavern with rein-forcements about two oclock in the after-noon. One party of his men entered thehouse and, after compelling the inmates toserve them to whatever they wanted, ruth-lessly shot down John Raymond, an infirmman residing in the family, only becausehe had become alarmed at their roughnessand brutal conduct, and attempted to leavethe house for a place of greater safety. At Coopers Tavern, in Arlington, Jabez112. WRIGHT TAVERN, CONCORD ..-^s^ y \^ ^./Hi*! ? i^M^^^^ -j.^ ^^^^^^^^^^w^KKKlf^^^^ djiiKiQ 0 ^^n X- Hp*^ ^Jm \ 1 I^K X a coopers tavern, AKLINGION Some Revolutionary Taverns Wyman and Jason Winship, two aged citi-zens who had come, unarmed, simply toinquire the news were most barbarouslyand inhumanly murdered by the British,being stabbed through in many places, theirheads mauled, skulls broken and their brainsdashed out on the floors and walls of thehouse. ^ Arnolds Tavern, Weymouth, Massachu-setts, is another house of Revolutionary in-terest, for here was organized on March 9,1775, the committee of correspondence forthat and neighbouring towns. Of this com-mittee Dr. Tufts was chairman and Cap-tain White, Major Lovell, Major Viningand Mr. Joseph Colson other members. At Sawtells Tavern, Shirley, in the oldBay State, the rights of New England peo-ple to represen
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