Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . and. Tristram Cofifyn possessed a clever wifewhose superior intellect had the efifect, asnot infrequently happens, of getting her hus-band into trouble. The County records forSeptember 1653 say that Tristram Coffynswife, Dionis, was presented for selling beer,at his ordinary in Newbury, for 3 pencea qt. Having proved, upon the testimonyof Samuel Moores, that she put 6 bushels ofmalt into the hogshead she was law which she was supposed to haveviolated ha
Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . and. Tristram Cofifyn possessed a clever wifewhose superior intellect had the efifect, asnot infrequently happens, of getting her hus-band into trouble. The County records forSeptember 1653 say that Tristram Coffynswife, Dionis, was presented for selling beer,at his ordinary in Newbury, for 3 pencea qt. Having proved, upon the testimonyof Samuel Moores, that she put 6 bushels ofmalt into the hogshead she was law which she was supposed to haveviolated had been passed in 1645, and or-dained that every person licensed to keepan ordinary shall always be provided withgood wholesome beer of 4 bushels of maltto the hogshead, which he shall not sellabove 2 pence the ale qt on penalty of 40shillings the first offence & for the secondhe shall lose his license. Goodwife Coffynhad merely worked out a problem in pro-portion (?) and demanded a higher returnfor what she represented as better beer. This progenitor of the Newbury Coffinswas also the founder of the Nantucket fam- 242. Old Tavern Days in Newbury ily of the same name. He had not longbeen keeping the ferry and selling beer whenhe disposed of all his property on the Mer-rimac to remove to the island town. Hisson, Tristram Jr., fell heir, by marriage, toanother ordinary, the house now known asthe Coffin house. (Edmund Greenleafs li-cense had been transferred in 1650 to HenrySomerby, his son-in-law, and upon Somer-bys death in 1652, young Coffin took overthe widow and the house.) He was deaconof the first church in Newbury and lived inthis house for more than half a century pass-ing the property down, upon his death, tohis youngest son, Nathaniel. Nathanielabode here until he was eighty, dischargingmeanwhile many offices of trust in the col-ony. His son, Colonel Joseph Coffin, bornDecember 30, 1702, was the next occupantof the house, and for nearly thirty yearsacted as the towns cle
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