Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . er, it is highly prizedas an authentic picture of early New Eng-land and its author is widely acclaimed oneof the most interesting characters of hertime. 35 CHAPTER III THE FATHER OF THE TURNPIKE AND SOMERELATED TAVERNS The first post-road to New York, overwhich Madam Knight travelled in 1704,went by the way of Providence, Stonington,New London and the shore of Long IslandSound, a distance of two hundred and fifty-five miles. Just eighty years after thatdoughty dames
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . er, it is highly prizedas an authentic picture of early New Eng-land and its author is widely acclaimed oneof the most interesting characters of hertime. 35 CHAPTER III THE FATHER OF THE TURNPIKE AND SOMERELATED TAVERNS The first post-road to New York, overwhich Madam Knight travelled in 1704,went by the way of Providence, Stonington,New London and the shore of Long IslandSound, a distance of two hundred and fifty-five miles. Just eighty years after thatdoughty dames journey, Captain Levi Peaseput on a regular stage between Boston andHartford and the beginning of systematiccommunication between Boston and NewYork was established. Pease was a Connect-icut man (born in Enfield in 1740) but afterhis marriage he removed to Massachusetts,and it is with a little Massachusetts town,Shrewsbury, near Worcester, that his fameis most intimately bound up. Shrewsbury,moreover, is particularly interesting to usbecause, at the time Pease started his stageroute, there were no less than three noted 36. / i The Father of the Turnpike taverns in the place, — Farrars, Baldwinsand Howes. Farrars Tavern is now better known asthe Pease Tavern for the reason that the Father of the Turnpike eventually cameto be its landlord. But Major John Farrar,an army officer of considerable distinction,was in charge during the Revolution andduring the visit made to the village in 1789by General Washington while on his way toBoston. For all travellers to and from theNew England capital the house was a pop-ular resort, for it stood on the corner formedby the junction of the great road with theroad to Westboro, about one mile from theNorthboro line, right in the current oftravel. Very likely, therefore, it was at thistavern that John Adams overheard in 1774the conversation which, tavern-hater thoughhe was, so impressed him that he set it downwith scarcely concealed pleasure: Wit
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