Stage-coach and Tavern Days

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Stage-coach and Tavern Days is by Alice Morse Earle. The contents list chapters titled The Puritan Ordinary, Old-time Taverns and The Tavern Landlord. The text says that the turnpike was filled with great trading wagons, that there was a tavern at every mile on the road, and fifty-two within fifty miles of Albany.

A story tells that the Frenchman resisted and drew his sword, and that company came in and disarmed him and carried him by force to the stocks. The text says Winthrop gravely enumerates the faults of the constable. The text also says that administration of government in those days certainly consisted much of meddlesome interference in the private affairs of daily life.

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Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911) was an American historian from Worcester, Massachusetts. She published seventeen books on colonial dress, customs, childhood and household life, drawing on diaries, inventories and surviving objects, and did much to establish everyday domestic history as a subject worth serious study.