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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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ace, however, had rich natural advan-tages, and these lusty young men from oldEngland were soon prosperous as a resultof their choice of a home. John How was among the first in thesettlement to be admitted a freeman. InEngland he had been a glover, but, therebeing slight demand for gloves in newtowns of the seventeenth century, he turnedhis attention in 1661 to the trade of tavern-keeper. Very early, therefore, we find aHow keeping a tavern. Longfellow, in ac-counting to an English friend for the coatof arms and justice authority with which hisLandlord Howe is endowed said (Dec. 28,1863) Some two hundred years ago anEnglish family by the name of Howe builtin Sudbury a country house, which has re-mained in the family down to the presenttime, the last of the race dying two yearsago. Losing their fortunes, they becameinnkeepers, and for a century the Red Horsehas flourished, going down from father toson. . . . This will account for the land-lords coat of arms and for his being a jus- 192
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The IVayside Inn tice of the peace, things that must soundstrange to English ears. As a matter of fact, however, there wasnothing strange about an inn-keeper in colo-nial New England being both a gentlemanand a squire. John How was a selectmanas early as 1642 and in 1655 he was ap-pointed to see to the restraining of youthon the Lords day. Nor was this at all in-compatible with his week-day uses. ButLongfellow knew that an English readerwould not understand this. James FenimoreCooper, writing a quarter of a century ear-lier, knew it also for he says, The inn-keeper of Old England and the inn-keeperof New England form the very extremes oftheir class. The one is obsequious to therich, the other unmoved and often appar-ently cold. The first seems to calculate ata glance the amount of profit you are likelyto leave behind you; while his opposite ap-pears only to calculate in what manner hecan most contribute to your comfort with-out materially impairing his own. . . . Heis often a magistra

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