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Ipswich, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
tsmouth to Boston a large stage Chair, With two good horses well equipped, will be ready by Monday the 20th. inst. to start out from Mr. Stavers, innholder, at the Sign of the Earl of Halifax, in this town to perform once a week; to lodge at Ipswich the same night, from thence through Medford to Charlestown ferry, to tarry at Charlestown till Thursday morning, so as to return to this town the next day; to set out again on the Monday following. It will be contrived to carry four persons best had driven him to despair. For from his lofty station he had seen Stavers, her husband, dressed in bottle green, Drive his new Flying Stage-Coach, four in hand, Down the long lane and out into the land, And knew that he was far upon the way To Ipswich and to Boston on the Bay! In 1767 a line was started from Salem to Boston, in 1772 one from Marblehead, and an advertisement of the line from Newburyport may be seen in the Boston Gazelle, May 10, 1773. With what pleasure these coaches mu
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
She had that fine water-way, the Mystic river, at first on her southern border, later, by an accession of territory, through the middle of the town. She was near Boston, and all the land travel from the north and east to that great center of New England's interests and ideals, for more than a hundred and fifty years, passed through her market-place and over the successive bridges spanning the Mystic where the Cradock bridge is located. From as far as Quebec and Passamaquoddy Bay came the t prosperity and convenience, to the men whose foresight started them, and to whose public spirit Medford citizens are so much indebted. The Wymans were descendants from a family of Saxon derivation, and belonged to the sturdy yeomanry. The New England ancestor settled in Woburn, Mass., and there Joseph Wyman was born, August 15, 1762. He married Ruth Fowle, 1781, and had a family of four sons and two daughters born there, the birth of Joseph junior occurring June 13, 1782. Wymans are fo
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 15
ust have added no little extra excitement and interest to the daily life of the town. The earliest stage line from the North to Boston was from Portsmouth. This was established in April, 1761, and the following notice announced the enterprise to the public. For the encouragement of trade from Portsmouth to Boston a large stage Chair, With two good horses well equipped, will be ready by Monday the 20th. inst. to start out from Mr. Stavers, innholder, at the Sign of the Earl of Halifax, in this town to perform once a week; to lodge at Ipswich the same night, from thence through Medford to Charlestown ferry, to tarry at Charlestown till Thursday morning, so as to return to this town the next day; to set out again on the Monday following. It will be contrived to carry four persons besides the driver. In case only two persons go they may be accommodated to carry things of bulk and value to make a third or fourth person. The price will be Thirteen shillings and sixpence st
Newbury, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
a third or fourth person. The price will be Thirteen shillings and sixpence sterling for each person from hence to Boston and at the same rate of conveyance back again, though under no obligation to return the same week in the same manner. Those who would not be disappointed must enter their names at Mr. Stavers, on Saturday, any time before nine o'clock in the evening, and pay one-half at entrance, the remainder at the end of the journey. Any gentleman may have business transacted at Newbury or Boston with fidelity and despatch, on reasonable terms. As gentlemen and ladies are often at a loss for good accommodations for travelling from hence, and can't return in less than three weeks or a month, it is hoped that this undertaking will meet with suitable encouragement, as they will be wholly free from the care and charge of keeping chairs and horses, or returning them before they had finished their business. What an event that was in Portsmouth when the Flying Stage-Coach
Union Hall (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
re printed in early almanacs and similar publications. After 1805 we find the stage-coach lines inserted in Thomas' Almanac, the times of arrival and departure, the place of headquarters noted, together with the days and number of times a week the coach started out. The Medford innkeepers' names given in these road lists were as follows: 1771, Jones; 1773, Billings; 1780, Billings; 1782, Porter; 1792, Blanchard, and also Bradshaw; 1794, Blanchard; 1800, Hezekiah Blanchard, located at Union Hall. These are taken at random from the various almanacs above mentioned. As the Blanchards were tavern-keepers for fifty years, and their house was the house par excellence, that name appears for many years. Strangely enough, sometimes the distance of this tavern from Boston is given as four miles and sometimes five. A gentleman eighty-five years of age, living in Medford, describes most interestingly the journeys he made with his father and others to Boston from near Montpelier, Vt.
Halifax (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
return! The humor of the name struck Portsmouth's witty son, that delightful Bad Boy, for he says the Flying Stage-Coach crept back from Boston. Let us look at one whose portrait a poet has given us: One hundred years ago, and something more, In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at the tavern door, Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose, Stood Mistress Stavers in her furbelows, Just as the cuckoo-clock was striking nine. Above her head, resplendent on the sign, The portrait of the Earl of Halifax, In scarlet coat and periwig of flax, Surveyed at leisure all her varied charms, Her cap, her bodice, her white folded arms, And half resolved, though he was past his prime, And rather damaged by the lapse of time, To fall down at her feet, and to declare The passion that had driven him to despair. For from his lofty station he had seen Stavers, her husband, dressed in bottle green, Drive his new Flying Stage-Coach, four in hand, Down the long lane and out into the land, And knew that he wa
Woburn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
nd the advice, Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. is taken by many. Let us now turn from the subject of these business enterprises, that added so much to Medford's prosperity and convenience, to the men whose foresight started them, and to whose public spirit Medford citizens are so much indebted. The Wymans were descendants from a family of Saxon derivation, and belonged to the sturdy yeomanry. The New England ancestor settled in Woburn, Mass., and there Joseph Wyman was born, August 15, 1762. He married Ruth Fowle, 1781, and had a family of four sons and two daughters born there, the birth of Joseph junior occurring June 13, 1782. Wymans are found often on our town records, for there were several families of this name living here. The senior Joseph settled in Medford, and as his name is first found on our tax-list 1783, it was probable that he came here with his family a short time before that date. Joseph junior was
Portsmouth, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
st to the daily life of the town. The earliest stage line from the North to Boston was from Portsmouth. This was established in April, 1761, and the following notice announced the enterprise to the public. For the encouragement of trade from Portsmouth to Boston a large stage Chair, With two good horses well equipped, will be ready by Monday the 20th. inst. to start out from Mr. Starses, or returning them before they had finished their business. What an event that was in Portsmouth when the Flying Stage-Coach set out on its trip of over fifty miles! what an event, too, when re, and how, perhaps even more so, they looked for its return! The humor of the name struck Portsmouth's witty son, that delightful Bad Boy, for he says the Flying Stage-Coach crept back from Bosto portrait a poet has given us: One hundred years ago, and something more, In Queen Street, Portsmouth, at the tavern door, Neat as a pin, and blooming as a rose, Stood Mistress Stavers in her furb
Lexington (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
oney. The Wyman tomb is on the west side of the Salem-street burying-ground, and there the ashes of the old stage-driver and his kin repose. Old Sam Blanchard was the son of Hezekiah junior and Eunice Floyd, his second wife, and half-brother to Esther Blanchard who married Joseph Wyman, Jr. He was born in Medford, April 30, 1803, and was baptized the following day. He married, first, Frances Burroughs of Sutton, N. H., November 2, 1825. His second wife was Mrs. Ruthena Hillard of Lexington, Mass. The intention of marriage was recorded April 8, 1844, but no return of the marriage was made. He had five daughters and three sons. He was proprietor for a few years of Blanchard's Tavern, a house which his grandfather and father had made of great popularity. When he established a stage line to Boston the coaches started from that tavern, but later he removed to the north side of the three-story building on Main street, just south of the Medford Mercury's office; here he had his r
Louisburg (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
stage, as the varying seasons came, with their gradual improvement for comfort and convenience in travelling. Almost without stirring beyond their door-steps, the people of Medford had the advantages of a cosmopolitan life in their midst. If ordinary travellers caused a ripple of excitement in the calm of the place, what must it have been when the air was rife with rumors of war? For here came many a youth bound for Boston to sail with Sir William Pepperell on the famous expedition to Louisburg; a little later there must have passed through here some of those who gathered on Boston Common to prevent the landing of the dreaded French invaders. Other travellers passing through the town were the hurrying Minute Men and the recruits for the Continental Army. If the novelist could correctly reproduce for us these travellers, we might find them endowed with a charm akin to that of the Canterbury Pilgrims. To accommodate all this early and later tide of travel, there were sever
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