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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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l. This made all the company look grave andhad the desired effect of silencing Molyneux,who was really a good companion. Yet,notwithstanding his wrongs, Otis was sogenerous that, when Robinson had apolo-gized, he magnanimously refused the dam-ages awarded him by the court. Another inn frequented by Otis and onewhich will probably outlive all its contem-poraries in the endurance of its fame is theGreen Dragon, which Daniel Webster oncepronounced the headquarters of the Revo-lution. Here Warren, John Adams andPaul Revere all assembled and plotted andhere used to resort hundreds of patriots forthe express purpose of conferring with theirchiefs. The house was kept in 1712 byRichard Pullin; in 1715 by Mr. Pattoun;in 1734 by Joseph Kilder; in 1769 by JohnGary and in 1771, when it became the placeof meeting of the Revolutionary Club, byBenjamin Burdick. In the local eventswhich preceded the encounter at Lexingtonthe men who met here all had importantparts to play. Says Revere: In the fall 96
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The Inns of Old Boston of 1774 and winter of 1775 I was one ofupwards thirty, chiefly mechanics, whoformed ourselves into a committee for thepurpose of watching the movements of theBritish soldiers and gaining every intelli-gence of the movements of the tories. Weheld our meetings at the Green Dragon Tav-ern. This committee was astonished to findall their secrets known to General Gage,although every time they met every memberswore not to reveal any of their transactionsexcept to Hancock, Adams, Warren, Otis,Church and one or two more. Doctor Church proved to be the traitoramong them/ The men of the Green Dragon group itwas who gave the alarm on the eve of thebattle of Lexington, who spirited away can-non under General Gages very nose andwho, again and again, in the course of thewar, performed swiftly and well dangerouspieces of work. Dr. Warren was the idol ofthe crowd, and between him and Revere avery warm friendship sprang up. When hesent the silversmith word, therefore, that hemust

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