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Title: Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: Hotels
Publisher: Boston, L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e Tavern a sign upon which was painteda soldier and the excellent advice, PayToday And Trust Tomorrow. About the time of the Revolution tavern-signs bearing the head and name of WilliamPitt became very popular in New England.The landlord of the tavern at York, Maine,put up such a sign and added boldly to itthe words, Entertainment For the Sons ofLiberty. In Portsmouth, New Hampshire,as will be seen by reference to the chapterwhich treats the inns of that town, there wasa less spontaneous honouring of WilliamPitt by a taverner. Upon pre-Revolutionary tavern-signs Gen-eral Wolfe was a favourite figure. Bostonhad a Wolfe tavern near Faneuil Hall andwhen General Israel Putnam became a land-lord at Brooklyn, Connecticut, he hung outover his front door a bravely-painted full-length of this hero. The Wolfe Tavern atNewburyport displavs to this day a boldpresentment of the English officers rathercomical profile. Beehives upon tavern signs were by nomeans uncommon. One such bore the motto, 236
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Tavern Signs — and IVonders *^ By industry we thrive and another thisrhyme: Here in this hive we are all alive,Good liquor makes us funny.If you are dry step in and tryThe flavor of our honey.* The Worcester Society of Antiquity ownsthe sign of Walkers Tavern, a famous housein Charlestown, New Hampshire, which dis-played dozens of realistic bees hoveringaround a properly symmetrical hive! The old sign of the inn at Paxton, Massa-chusetts shows upon one side Lord Corn-wallis and Charles Paxton shaking handsacross a well-loaded table at which theyappear to be dining. Over the picture arethe words: ^ Our good cheer tends to makeenemies friends. But one must not con-clude from this that the poltroon marshalof the Admiralty Court of Boston was afavourite among the good citizens of thistown. Such, indeed, was far from beingthe case; they could not forget that Paxtonhad never fulfilled his promise to give thema bell for the meeting-house if only theywould call their settlement after him! F

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