THE TAVERN LANDLORD

THE TAVERN LANDLORD

The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheer¬ful figure. Coach Tote Bags

Travellers did not fail to note him and his virtues in their accounts of their sojourns. Coach Bags Outlet

In 1686 a gossiping London bookseller and author, named John Dunton, made a cheerful visit to Bos¬ton. He did not omit to pay tribute in his story of colonial life to colonial landlords. He thus pic¬tures George Monk, the landlord of the Blue Anchor of Boston: Coach Handbags

" A person so remarkable that, had I not been acquainted with him, it would be a hard matter to make any New England man believe I had been in Boston ; for there was no one house in all the town more noted, or where a man might meet with better accommodation. Coach Purses Outlet

Besides, he was a brisk and jolly man, whose conversation was coveted by all his guests as the life and spirit of the company." Coach Bags

This picture of an old-time publican seems more suited to English atmosphere than to the stern air of New England Puritanism. Coach Purses

Grave and re¬spectable citi¬zens were chosen to keep the early ordinaries and sell liquon The first " house of intertainment" at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was kept by a deacon of the church, after¬ward Steward of Harvard Col¬lege. Coach Wallets

The first license in that town to sell wine and strong water was to Nicholas Dan- forth, a select¬man, and Repre¬sentative to the General Court. In the Plymouth. Coach Crossbody Bags These sober and discreet citizens were men of ample means, who took the duty of wine-selling to aid the colony rather than their own incomes. Coach Outlet