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Title: Providence in colonial times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kimball, Gertrude Selwyn, 1863-1910
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Publisher: Boston & New York : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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test and most genteel Manner,which he sells very reasonable. He was also pro-vided with the best of Butter to sell by the smallQuantity. Captain Joseph Olney, likewise of the North End,offered for sale at the Sign of the Golden Ball,Hardware and Rum, and Other equally well as-sorted Merchandize, while Nathaniel Balch, at theSign of the Hat, near Captain Joseph Olneys,sold stoneware and decanters, pipes pepper, spices,&c., Cheshire cheese, also hats, flour, chocolate, . . .also a few lottery tickets. He made a specialty ofWomens very neat Lynn Shoes ... at 6j-. Zd. bythe single Pair, and cheaper by the Quantity. Balchwas one of that group of beaux among whom MosesBrown, Jabez Bowen, and Jonathan Clarke wereconspicuous. Shakespeares Head (now 21 Meeting Street) The printing office, post-office and residence of JohnCarter, where the Providence Gazette was printed after1772. The house beyond is the Updike House. From aphotograph, taken in 1911, by WilHs A. Dean. ^(fsaar^ omr-f iH ^-Ay
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The Colonial Town 321 Others utilized the well-known landmarks of thetown. Darius Sessions — better known perhaps asDeputy-Governor Sessions — described his shop ason the Main Street between the Court-House andthe Church, and directly opposite the large Button-Wood Tree. There he was ready to supply NewMilk, Cheese, Choice French Brandy, Holland Ge-neva, Cordial Waters, and Sundry Sorts of Wines,together with a general Assortment of West IndiaGoods, Grocery, and many other Articles. A little south of the Deputy Governor, Clark andNightingale advertised a large Assortment of Eng-lish and India Piece Goods; Likewise Stationary andHard Ware ... at their Shop, newly opened, at theSign of the Frying-Pan and Fish, adjoining to theNorth-West Corner of the Court-House Lot, andopposite Oliver Arnold, Esquire. The junior mem-ber of this firm was Joseph Nightingale, a youngerson of Samuel, of Concord Distil House fame. Someyears later the firm removed to the south of the TownParade, and the

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