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In Feb., 1798, was advertised for sale a farm in Walpole "with a large, and commodious Dwelling House, two Barns, a Shop and other buildings thereon-Well known, for many years as a Tavern, and formerly occupied by Capt. Downes. . . . ' 3
Meanwhile a third tavern had been estab- lished-this one on Walpole Plain, about a mile and a half beyond the Brass Ball. One Dupee is listed as its proprietor in 1765.4 He was possibly that Charles "Duppe" who was paid for labor on the meeting house in 1758.5 Dupee was born in Boston, a grandson of one Jean Dupuis. He removed from Walpole to Wrentham in the year he is first mentioned as a taverner. 6
1 Town Rec., II, 170. 3 Tilden, 188.
* Dedham Minerva, Feb. 15, 1798. 4 Ames' Almanack.
5 Town Rec., I, 161. 6 N. E. Gen. Reg., XXXVI, 365.
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Dupee's successor was named Harris, 1 whom I will not attempt to identify. The Harris tavern on the Plain is mentioned from 1767 to 1774.
By 1775 this tavern had come into the hands of Jonathan Hidden or Hadden,? who remained as its proprietor until his death in 1796.3
And now, how fared the old Brass Ball? On Feb. 16, 1783 the Widow Robbins passed away 4 and all the Robins property went to the church, which disposed of some of it a year later.5
In this interval-from the spring of 1783 to the spring of 1784-Samuel Fuller perhaps was proprietor of the Brass Ball. Town meetings were held in his house in that period,6 the meeting house having been torn down.7 He is paid for "Nursing a Sailor" and "Boarding the Rasers," & the latter presumably the men em- ployed in building the meeting house. That his house may have been the Brass Ball is a pre- sumption based on its description as "late the property of Deac Robbins." 9
In 1784 Fuller passes out of the picture, and there appears in his stead a taverner named Daggett, perhaps Abner Daggett of Attleboro,
1 Ames' Almanack, 1767 et seq. 2 See Chapter on Revolution.
3 Ames' Almanack. 4 Ded. Hist. Reg., XI, 38.
%. Ibid., 37. ' Town Rec., II, 113, 117.
" Ante, p. 170. * Town Rec., II, 119. 9 Ibid., 122.
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Left at Deacon Robbins's Tavern in Walpole, about a Month or 6 Weeks ago, a Silver Watch ; the Owner may have it again by telling the Marks and paying Charges. Walpole, Aug 3.1764.
AN ADVERTISMENT INSERTED BY DEACON ROBBINS IN THE "BOSTON GAZETTE" AUGUST 13, 1764.
(Reproduced from the original by courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.)
To be LET on Reafonable Terms, (And ener'd on immediately) A Very good FARM Scituate in Walpole, within three Miles of the Meeting- Houje, con- taining Five Hundred Acres of Land, about Two Hundred of which is clear'd, with a good Houfe and Barn thereon, and a Stock of Horn Cattle, Sheep, Ec. For further Particulars enquire of ISAAC ROYALL, Efg; at Medford, near Bolton.
WHEN MOST OF SOUTH WALPOLE WAS FOR SALE. An advertisement by Isaac Royal in the "Boston Evening Post", April 27, 1761.
(Reproduced from the original by courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.)
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who had served in the Revolutionary armies and who came to Walpole with his family after the war.1 Daggett, a nephew of Dr. Ebenezer Daggett, Walpole's first physician, appears in the records as early as Feb. 1783 as receiving "3s 9p fro Rum & Sugar for William Marshall when sick. . . . " Marshall was one of the town's poor.
This route through the Centre developed through the half century from 1750 to 1800 into one of the most heavily traveled roads in the country, and the tavern keepers doubtless did a flourishing business.
The first regular stage between Boston and Providence was established over it in 1767 by Thomas Sabin in Providence.2 "Stage-Coach No. 1," it was called. The coach left Provi- dence every Tuesday and, returning, left Boston the following Thursday.3 Two years later the service had been improved and "two Stage- Coaches pass and repass twice a week." The fare was "2 dollars each Passenger." 4
Before the Revolution the post office authori- ties established a New York mail service over the road via Worcester and Hartford, there- after called the "upper road" to distinguish it from the "lower road" through Walpole.5 The
1 Doggett-Daggett Fam., 153. 1 Wood, 26.
* Boston Gazette, Aug. 24, 1767, 4.
' Roper, 33.
" Ames' Almanack, 1769.
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Walpole route was also variously designated as the "Post road to Providence." 1 and the "Southern Post Road." 2
This Colonial postal service was notable chiefly for its inefficiencies. Hugh Finlay, rep- resentative of the British Post Office, who made a trip over the Walpole route in 1773, reported that "it is the constant practice of all riders . . . to defraud the revenue as much as they can in pocketing the postage of all way letters." He speaks of their "shameful tardiness; like- wise of the bare faced custom of making pack beasts of the horses which carry His Majesty's Mails." 3
In 1792 we are informed that at Providence "there are a number of excellent swift-sailing and well-accommodated packet boats, which ply the river from Providence to Newport, for conveying passengers &c who wish to travel to that city or any part of the continent." 4
One could travel from Providence to New York by boat-a popular route, owing to the hardships of land travel. The Post Road, be- tween New Haven and New York, was not only uncomfortable, but in some places almost im- passable.5 And though the journey from Boston to Providence was scarcely comparable with
1 Ames' Diary, Ded. Hist. Reg., VIII, 27; also Boston Gazette.
? Map of Walpole, 1794. 3 Finlay quoted in Roper, 32.
4 Bickerstaff's Boston Almanack. $ Wood, 29.
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this, the travelers doubtless got many a jolt as the coaches struggled over Walpole roads.
By traveling in the rumbling coach from early morning to late at night one could make the run from New York to Boston in six days. By packet-sloops to Providence and thence by coach via Walpole, the trip could be made some- times in three days, though if the wind or weather was hostile, it sometimes took nine. 1
Yet in spite of the uncertainty of the water route, it was much patronized, and this business, in addition to the ordinary interstate traffic, warranted Israel Hatch, former coach driver, and at this period postmaster at Attleboro and · tavern-keeper at that place and Boston,2 in putting on the first line of daily stages between Boston and Providence about 1793. These started at 5 o'clock in the morning, changed horses in Walpole, and reached their destination early in the afternoon.3
In 1797 the taverns along the road from Boston to Attleboro were listed as follows, the distances between stands being about as they had stood for 50 years, though the proprietors had changed many times:
Roxbury
Whiting 8 miles
Dedham Ames and Gay 3 "
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1 Jenkins, 34. 2 Old Boston Taverns, 108, 110, 111, 124.
' N. E. Inns, 312, 313.
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Wrentham Mann 6
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From Newell's the way ran down to Provi- dence, 9 miles; the total being 45 from Boston.
In 1798 a new listing appears, headed "Post Road to Providence." Two miles beyond Ellis', in Dedham, appears a tavern kept by one Everett, evidently in present Norwood. Three miles further, in Walpole, is Smith Billings & Smith, whose stand must have been at the Centre. Another four miles and we come to Hatch's in Wrentham, now Norfolk; four miles further is Bolcomb's, also Wrentham; then Hawes', Attleboro, 5 miles; and finally Newell's, 4 miles.
This new listing may have been due to a change in the arrangement for carrying the mails, in which Israel Hatch seems to have had a hand. That there was a change is proved by the an- nouncement of proprietors of a Dedham news- paper that, on account of a change in the arrival of the mails, their date of publica- tion would be shifted from Tuesday to Thurs- day.2 Coincidentally comes the alteration of the tavern lists, with Israel Hatch appearing as
. 1 Thomas' Farmer's Almanack.
? Dedham Minerva, Oct. 31, 1797.
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proprietor in Wrentham. Further, we know that, if not at this time, then certainly soon after, Hatch was proprietor of the famous Ex- change Tavern in State St., Boston. In 1800 his son-in-law, Stephen Fuller, Jr .- afterwards to become proprietor of the Half-Way House in South Walpole-inserted the following ad- vertisement in the Columbian Centinel of Janu- ary 8:
NEW YORK AND PROVIDENCE MAIL STAGES
Leave Major Hatches, Royal Exchange Coffee House in State Street, every morning at eight o'clock, arrive at Providence at six the same day; leave Providence at four o'clock for New York, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Stage book kept at the bar for the entrance of the names. Expreffes forwarded to any part of the continent at the shorteft notice, on reasonable terms; Horfes kept ready for that purpofe only. All favors gratefully acknowledged by the public's moft humble servant.
STEPHEN FULLER, JR.
So we hazard this guess: That Fuller, having taken over his father-in-law's stage business, had obtained the contract to carry the mails, beginning about 1797 or earlier; that the start was made from the Exchange Tavern in Boston, and that a Half-Way House had been established by Hatch in Wrentham. 1 About a year later Fuller became proprietor of the Exchange Tav-
1 See Ded. Hist. Reg., VII, 14.
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ern, 1 and about the same time Hatch's Tavern passes out of the picture.
This did not mean that Israel Hatch was ending his long and active career. Quite the contrary. He had more important things to take his time, as we shall see.
1 Facsimile Reproductions, 52.
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"THE HARVEY BOYDEN HOUSE, ON THE ROAD TO WRENTHAM," South Street, Walpole (probably the latter part of 1600)
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W HILE history had been making on the old and the new post roads, and Walpole Centre had developed by strides, other parts of the town also had seen many changes. Back in 1723-before Walpole was set off from Ded- ham-South Street had been laid out1 to serve the growing demands of those in the south part of the town. And by the end of the century this way, with its continuation on to Wrentham, probably was pretty well traveled.
And now, in 1801, the almanack-maker ushers in the familiar name of Polley as a tavern keeper and gives his readers a new route "to Newport," in part as follows:
Roxbury
Whiting 8
Dedham
Ames & Gay 3
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Walpole
Polley 7
Wrentham
Druce 6
Attleborough "
Holmes 5
Newell 4
1 Lewis, 12, 65; Ded. Rec., 1707-1749, page 157.
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This probably does not refer to the Polley Tavern that is still standing at South Walpole. That is of a later date. Nathaniel Polley was at this period a resident of West Walpole 1 and doubtless was the successor to Jonathan Hidden, though not necessarily in the same house.
In the same year, 1801, we find Polley be- coming party to an agreement between Stephen Fuller "of Boston," and Solomon Hatch and Simon Sabin, both of Providence, providing "That whereas the said Hatch together with one Alpheus Ammidon hath hitherto carried the Mail of the United States on the rout from Providence to Boston and delivered the said Mail at the Tavern of Israel Hatch in Wren- tham, so called, and there received and there brought the returning Mail to Providence afore- said. And as the Rout is now altered, the said Hatch together with the said Sabin have agreed and by these presents do firmly obligate them- selves to deliver and receive the same Mail in like good order and for the same compensation, and at the same times at the house of Nathaniel Polley in Walpole as has hitherto been done at the said Hatch's in Wrentham aforesaid . . .
at such times as that three complete routs may be performed in each and every week. . . . " 2
The agreement probably went into effect late in 1801 or in 1802. After 1803 the almanacks 1 Town Rec., II, 247, 250. 2 Fuller Papers.
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"THE HALL HOUSE, ON THE ROAD TO WRENTHAM," South Street, Walpole (about 1710)
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drop mention of Hatch's in their tavern lists, but Polley continues on.
Hatch, as we have said, had things of greater import than taverns and coaches to keep him busy. He was at this period one of the prime movers in a plan to run a turnpike from Dedham to Pawtucket. In spite of opposition, the legis- lature was prevailed upon in 1802 to charter a Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike Corporation, with authority for construction of a pike, in "as near a strait line . .. as a Committee appointed by the General Court, shall . . . direct," from Dedham to Pawtucket Bridge. 1
Walpole people at first objected strenuously to having the pike go through, and at a meeting Jan. 11, 1802, voted to "have the Selectmen draw up a remonstrance to send by Mr. Bacon to the General Court and to have him use his influence against a turnpike road going through this Town." 2
The town was not alone in its opposition. Many Dedham people were against it, and when the matter first came before the legislature it failed to pass, the Dedham representative being among those who voted against it. Na- thaniel Ames, one of the company officials, ad- mitted that "many dread it as bad as a standing army to spunge them of money." 3 In Walpole
1 Wood, 87-89. 2 Town Rec., II, 242.
' Ames' Diary, Ded. Hist. Reg., XI, 102.
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there probably was the legitimate objection that the route would deflect much of the pros- perous business that travel on the Post Road brought to the Centre, and send it to other towns. But in spite of opposition the bill finally was enacted, and the pike, now called Washington Street, was opened for travel in 1806.1
However much Walpole Centre suffered from this deflection of traffic, the town as a whole did not suffer. The turnpike touched East Wal- pole and dropped in a bee-line to the extreme tip of South Walpole. At both places taverns did a flourishing business. Furthermore, the stage route from North Walpole to the Centre and then over the Plain was not abandoned. There was frequent service over it. One stage line over the Plain was run by John Needham, who had a half-way house near the present bridge over the railroad on West Street.2 .The cellar-hole still remains. At one time Needham bought the old Brass Ball in order to prevent competition on his line.3 It is told that when rivalry between the coach lines was intense, Needham offered free passage to all who would leave his competitor. 4
This do-it-for-nothing brand of competition
1 Wood, 89.
2 This was probably the Hidden or Polley tavern.
3 Lewis, 143. Yet Needham himself seems never to have run a tavern.
4 Lewis, 190.
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appears to have been originated by none other than Israel Hatch, who, when he put on his first mail line in 1793, with "six good coaches and experienced drivers," announced that at the termination of his contract for carrying the mail he would continue to carry it gratis, "which will undoubtedly prevent any further under- bidding of the Envious." The rivalry led eventually to cutthroat competition which first forced rates down and then brought an offer to carry first-booked passengers for nothing. The opposition met this with a free dinner at the end of the trip. Whereupon the first line not only duplicated the free dinner offer, but threw in a bottle of wine for good measure. 1
Of the turnpike taverns, most famous of all was the Half-Way House or the Fuller Tavern, which is still standing at South Walpole. Its proprietor was the same Stephen Fuller previ- ously mentioned, who, when the pike was first opened, was keeper of a tavern at Dedham. An advertisement of March 24, 1807, tells that the "noted Stage Tavern now kept by Stephen Fuller" at Dedham "at the parting of the two great State Roads to Providence and Hartford" is for sale. "Possession is to be given June 10."? This was Timothy Gay's tavern, and was so listed in the almanacks-proof that the keepers
. 1 Stage Coach and Tavern Days, 271-272.
? Norfolk Repository.
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of taverns were not always mentioned, the familiar tavern names being preferred.
Fuller bought land and buildings on the west side of the Turnpike at South Walpole in 1809 1 and soon thereafter appears as a tavern keeper. John Needham owned adjoining property, in- cluding a stable, which Fuller bought in 1819 from the executor of Needham, who had died in 1815.2
The old Fuller tavern has 18 rooms, the two front ones on the upper floor having been fitted with a hanging partition between them that could be hooked up to provide a large hall for dancing. An inventory of the estate of Fuller, dated July 2, 1833,3 lists 26 beds, one trundle and three cots, and array of furniture to ac- company them. The tavern evidently boasted a "New Parlor," a "Front Parlor" and a "Middle Parlor."
Of material for the inner man, there is listed 25 gallons of Lisbon wine, 2 barrels of Sicily wine, 20 gallons of brandy, 16 of gin, and ap- parently 14 barrels of cider.
The property included "the old tavern stand two stables and other outbuildings" with about 4 acres of land, the Polley place and buildings, and about 16 acres, together with an adjoining plot of two acres, "The Old Farm house with
1 Norfolk Deeds, XXXIII, 254.
2 Norfolk Deeds, LXII, 138.
3 Fuller Papers.
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garden adjoining" and finally "The Cleaveland place so called."
The real estate was set at $13,800 and per- sonal $3,068.47, a total of $16,868.47.
After the death of Stephen the tavern was conducted by his son. There is an undated letter addressed "Mrs. Fuller, At the half-way house, Walpole," being the request of Elizabeth Amory for a "nice woman" to do general house- work. The terms offered are "a dollar a week & she can go to meeting half a day Sundays." A letter to James Fuller at the Half Way House, dated 1840, would indicate that the old hostelry was still active. Until recent years it was owned by Fuller's descendants.
The Polley Tavern was across the way, on the east side of the pike and until 1830 was in the town of Foxboro. The town line ran just in front of it.
It is difficult for us, at this distance, to realize the bustle and confusion attendant upon the heavy traffic over the pike. It was then one of the finest roads in America, if not the best. All other New England pikes, at any rate, were simply dirt roads. This one was of stone and gravel, laid 7 feet wide with great care, at a cost of something more than $5000 a mile. 1
For 30 years, summer and winter, the pike was in constant use. Not only the regular 1 Wood, 90, 91.
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stage lines, but hundreds of private vehicles moved over it. And though the speedy pas- senger coaches usually made South Walpole their stopping place. The slow moving freight wagons, crawling laboriously over the hills, were served by many smaller taverns and re- freshment places along the line.
Just over the Foxboro line from South Wal- pole was one of the toll-gates, at one time pre- sided over by Timothy Gay,1 who ran a grist mill close by, and in 1825 tended by James Boyden.2
Some idea of the amount of traffic passing through South Walpole may be gained from Boyden's report for the month of July, 1825. It shows the passage of 207 Boston-Providence Citizen's Coaches, 113 Boston-Providence New Line Coaches, 41 Guild's Teams (freight wag- ons), 17 coaches, 194 one-horse vehicles besides 19 one-horse wagons of the Union Stage Line; 49 four-horse wagons, 21 two-horse wagons, 119 one-horse wagons, and 16 saddle horses. On July 2 alone, 16 stage coaches passed the gate.3 In the year 1828 about 35,000 passengers traveled the route by stage. 4
The steamboat business had now become of considerable dimensions and the stage coaches all catered to it. An advertisement of Novem-
1 Lewis, 190. 2 Wood, 99. 3 Ibid., 92.
Report of the Board of Commissioners, 43.
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ber, 1825 tells that the "Boston and Providence Citizen's Coach leaves Boston every morning at half past 7 and arrives in Providence to dine." The reverse trip was run every day at the same hour.
In addition, "On steam boat days, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, the proprietors convey all passengers who wish to take passage in the steam boats for New-York-They also have carriages in readiness to take passengers who may arrive at Providence in the steam boats, to Boston. .. . " The fare from Boston to Provi- dence was $2.00.1
There were also, about this same period, the Boston and New-York Union Stage and Steam Boat Line, connecting at New London with Sound steamers for New York; the Boston and Providence Commercial Line, also running to New London; the Boston and Providence Union Line; and the Tremont Line. The fare to New York, via stage and boat from New London, was $9.50.2
The stages, filled outside and in almost to overflowing, would come tearing up the turn- pike on the run with their early-morning steam- boat passengers from Providence, and stop at South Walpole to breakfast. Sometimes a dozen or so would come in at once. In a trice the horses were unhitched and started off to the 1 Badger's Register. : Ibid.
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stables, while the passengers hustled into the dining-room to snatch a hasty breakfast and top it off with a glass of brandy. At the ringing cry "Stage ready" they settled their bills and scrambled aboard again for the run to Boston. 1
Here were the huge stables of the companies operating over the pike. And close at hand was the blacksmith shop of Phineas Boyden, where the stage horses were shod. If his charges to the Citizen's company are representative, then horseshoeing was not an expensive matter- thirteen cents for setting a single shoe, 50 cents for setting four, with new shoes at 29 cents each.2
But in spite of the popularity of the turnpike, the road through Wrentham and Walpole Centre was always well patronized.
When President Monroe made a tour of the country in 1817 he chose this older route, so that he might touch the principal villages and meet a greater number of persons. On July 1 he left Providence for Boston, at Wrentham "partook of a collation, provided in a style of village simplicity by the Selectmen of that town," and then proceeded to Walpole.
Here he "halted a few moments at Clapp's Inn, where a number of the citizens of the neighborhood were introduced to him." He
! Reminiscences of Albert Ellis. Mss. of G. A. Plimpton.
? Boyden Papers, Ded. Hist. Soc. Coll.
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reached Dedham at 7 that evening, remained for the night, and, in the morning of July 2, "proceeded on foot to Mr. Polley's Inn," where he greeted the citizens.1 Nathaniel Polley, Jr., was proprietor.
On this occasion the Militia company of Wal- pole, of which John Allen Gould was then Captain, was called out to honor the dis- tinguished visitor.2
Clapp's Tavern is shown at the Centre 15 years later, on the map of 1732, and appears to have been in the vicinity of the present Town Hall.
Badger & Porter's Stage Register for Novem- ber, 1825, tells that "Boston, Walpole, Wren- tham and Providence, R. I. Stages, leave Boston and Providence every morning, except Sundays, at 5-from Providence Monday, Wednesday and Fridays-from Boston, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Walpole and Wrentham -from Boston Monday, Wednesday and Friday -and from Providence, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, over the turnpike. Distance 40 miles -fare $1.50. . .
By 1826 the Boston and Providence Citizen's Mail Coach was running two daily coaches each way, one leaving Boston at 7.30 and reaching Providence at 1 p. m., over the Pike, and a second leaving Boston at 11 (except Sunday) and 1 Tour of James Monroe, 126. 2 Gould Diary (Mss.), 6.
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