Historic Mansions And Highways Around Boston Being a New And Rev Ed of Old
Historic Mansions And Highways Around Boston Being a New And Rev Ed of Old
Drake Samuel Adams
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Bradish's was the rendezvous of Rufus Putnam's regiment in 1777. The first publican in Old Cambridge was Andrew Belcher, an ancestor of the governor of that name, who was licensed in 1652 "to sell beare and bread, for entertainment of strangers and the good of the towne. " It is at least a coincidence that a Belcher still dispenses rather more dainty viands in tlie same locality. It is a relief to find that in the year 1 750 there were some convivial and even thirsty souls about, as we learn fr...om the journal of a rollicking sea-captain, who was having his ship repaired at Boston while he indulged in a run on shore : — " Being now ready to Sale I determined to pay my way in time, which I accordingly did at M" Graces at the Request of M' Heyleg- her and the Other Gentlemen Gave them a Good Supper with Wine and Arack Punch Galore, where Exceeding Merry Drinking Toasts Singing Roaring &c. Untill Morning when Could S'carce see One another being Blinded by the Wine Arack &c. We where in all ab' 20 in comp^" The tavern bills of the General Court in 1768-69 would astonish the ascetics of Beacon Hill.
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