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the easterly sections of the town the hostelries at the easterly corner of Main and Pearl streets, the westerly corner of Main and Douglass streets, near the westerly corner of Main and Moore streets, at the junction of Main Street and Broadway (and another a few rods farther eastward), at the junction of Cambridge and Bridge streets, and at the junction of Bridge and Gore streets, besides a generous local patronage, reaped an abundant harvest from the country teams engaged in transporting merchandise to and from
Boston; which teams almost entirely disappeared immediately after the construction of railroads, and the inns did not long afterwards flourish.
Besides innkeepers, the County Court licensed others to sell intoxicating liquors by retail.
Among the names of such retailers, in addition to those who have already been mentioned, the following appear during the first century:—
John Stedman, 1653-1686.
William Manning, 1654-1686.
Edmund Angier, 1674-1686.
Samuel Andrew, 1684-1691.
William Andrew, 1701.
Mrs. Seeth Andrew, 1702-1703.
Zachariah Hicks, 1704-1717.
Martha Remington, 1705-1712.
Jonathan Remington, 1713-1735.
Nathaniel Hancock, Jr., 1707-1709.
Mary Bordman, 1708-1714.
John Stedman, 1717-1724.
Sarah Fessenden, 1720-1735.
Mary Oliver, 1731-1732.
Edward Marrett, 1733-1735.
Two of these retailers in their old age found it necessary to appeal to the County Court for relief; their petitions are still preserved on file, to wit:—
To the honored Court assembled at Cambridge, all prosperity wished.
Thease are to informe you that I wase brought up in an honest collinge in ould England, where we sould all sortes of goodes and strong waters, withought offence.
I have bine now in this land forty-nine yeres and upwards in this towne, and have payd to the magistre and ministre, and to towne charges, and all willingly; that I have helped to beare the burthen and heate of the daye; and now I am 74 yers and upward, yet I can abide in my shope and attend my collinge, though litell is to be gotten by anye thinge I can by; that my trad will not maintayne my ffamily and other charges of towne and countrey and ministrye.
There being so many sellers that never served for a trade, I desire that it might be no offence to aney that I continue in that collinge I was brought up to, and may have yor leave to sell rome, it being a commodity sallabell and allowed to be brought into the countrey; and many that was
