History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . out west then and a verylong journey, from which place few were ever expected toreturn. About 1834 or 1835, John Huntington, a hatter by trade,removed from Northfield to Sunderland, purchasing thehomestead now owned by Wm. Gay lord (Lot No. 13, WestSide). He built a small shop south of his house, on thesouth line of his lot, which he used in the manufacture ofhats for many years. The shop was afterwards converted into a dwelling andoccupied by a VILLAGE IN
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . out west then and a verylong journey, from which place few were ever expected toreturn. About 1834 or 1835, John Huntington, a hatter by trade,removed from Northfield to Sunderland, purchasing thehomestead now owned by Wm. Gay lord (Lot No. 13, WestSide). He built a small shop south of his house, on thesouth line of his lot, which he used in the manufacture ofhats for many years. The shop was afterwards converted into a dwelling andoccupied by a VILLAGE INNS OR TAVERNS. CHAPTER XIII. A history of an ordinary New England town in the i8thcentury and in the early part of the 19th would be incom-plete if it made no mention of the village inn or authorities of the colonies of the Massachusetts Bay be-gan at a very early period to make provision for the licens-ing of inns or ordinaries and the colonial and the provin-cial statutes are full of provisions for their government andregulation. The very earliest laws prohibit the sale of wine and strongdrink in these places, as tending to riot and disorder. In1692 the provincial legislature made the following statementof the uses and purposes for which houses of entertainmentwere established : And for as much as the ancient true and principal use of inns,taverns, ale houses, vitualling houses and other houses for commonentertainment is for the receipt, relief and lodging of travellers andstrangers and the refreshment of persons upon lawful business orfor the necessary supply o
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