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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
r the date of his license. The next year, May 22, 1639, Mr. Nathaniell Sparhawke was permitted to drawe wine and strong water for Cambridge. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 259. He also was a deacon of the church, and resided on the easterly side of Brighton Street, about midway between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, in the house formerly owned and occupied by the Reverend Samuel Stone. We come next to the establishment of an ordinary which was long known as the Blue Anchor Tavern. Dec. 27, 1652, The Townsmen do grant liberty to Andrew Belcher to sell beer and bread, for entertainment of strangers and the good of the town; Although this was not, as Rev. Dr. Holmes supposed, the first license for an inn, in Cambridge (Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc., VII. 28), it may be regarded as the most important, in respect to its character and permanency. and the County Court granted him a license, June 20, 1654, to keep a house of public entertainment at Cambridge. Mr. Belcher was a trustwort