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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 14: civil History. (search)
was sold, May 22, 1851, to Little & Brown, publishers and booksellers, for $24,000; they converted it into an establishment for the manufacture of books, and erected many additional buildings. Subsequently the larger part of the estate became the property of H. O. Houghton & Co., by whom it was further embellished and rendered famous as the seat of the Riverside Press. Ordinaries, or houses of public entertainment, were established at a very early period. The General Court ordered, March 4, 1634-5, that no persons whatsoever shall keep a common victualling house, without license from the Court, under the penalty of xxs. a week. Mass. Col. Rec., i. 140. The power of granting licenses to keep houses of common entertainment, and to retail wine, beer, &c. was transferred to the County Courts, May 26, 1647, so as this Court may not be thereby hindered in their more weighty affairs. Ibid., II. 188. Various laws were enacted, regulating such houses, notably in 1645; It was t