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English: Roger Mowry Tavern, Providence

Identifier: amongoldnewengla00cra (find matches)
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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a bill renderedby Henry Fowler, the town blacksmith, forirons to bind the murderer. (This was thefirst murder in the settlement and none ofthe paraphernalia of punishment was athand.) A guard of nine men, including theman at Moories, charged three shillings anight to watch the prisoner; and StephenNorthup, the town constable, was paid threeshillings for warning the town about theprisoner. Landlord Mowry rendered a billof four shillings ^^ for houseroom for theprisoner, and at the preliminary hearingRoger Williams and Valentine Whitman,who could speak the Indian tongue, earnedtwelve shillings as interpreters. A Puritan ordinary, which was sometimesused as a church, was held, however, to beno proper place in which to confine a redskinmurderer, and it was accordingly determined that the prisoner Waumanitt shall be sentdown unto Newport to the Collony prisonThere to be kept until his tyme of Triall.So, in a boat with two of the townsmen, whohad been provided, — still at the dead mans 6
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IVhen the Inn Was a Puritan Ordinary expense, — with i pint of liquor, and pow-der and shott to carry along with ye pris-oner the slayer of Clauson passes fromfurther connection with the tavern. Not only was a tavern sometimes used asa meeting-house, as was the case withMowrys, but a meeting-house was occasion-ally turned into a tavern. So it happenedat Little Compton, Rhode Island, where, toput an end to the struggle between opposingfactions, the place which had served for theworship of God became a house of entertain-ment for travellers. Our ancestors had noreverence for a meeting-house save as such,and the interchangeable character of thesetwo public institutions, the church and thetavern, gave them no shock. The GreatHouse at Charlestown, Massachusetts, whichwas the official residence of Governor Win-throp, was in 1663 made a meeting-house,and later became quite easily the ThreeCranes, a public house kept for many yearsby Robert Leary and his descendants. It isinteresting to not

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