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Subject: [GM-L] Tavern of George Peirce of Groton, MA for sale in 1773
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 20:38:22 EDT

Subject: Tavern of George Peirce of Groton
Source: Groton Historical Series by Dr. Samuel A. Green Vol I 1887

p.11
No. VIII

Just before and during the Revolution, a tavern was kept by George
Peirce in the south part of Groton, within the present limits of Ayer.

This landlord was perhaps the innholder of Littleton, whose name appears in
an advertisement printed on the first page of "The Massachusetts Gazette and
Boston News-Letter," August 8, 1765.

Peirce's house was advertised for sale, according to the following
advertisement in "The Boston Gazette," September 27, 1773:

"To be Sold at Public Vendue, to the highest Bidder, on Wednesday the
3d Day of November next, at four o'Clock in the Afternoon (if not Sold before
at Private Sale) by me the Subscriber, a valuable farm in Groton
in the County of Middlesex, pleasantly situated on the great County Road,
leading from Crown Point and No. 4 to Boston: Said Farm contains
172 Acres of Upland and Meadow, with the bigger Part under improvement,
with a large Dwelling House and Barn, and Out Houses, together with a
good Grist Mill and Saw Mill, the latter new last Year, both in good
Repair, and on a good Stream, and within a few Rods of the House. Said
Farm would make two good Livings, and would sell it in two Divisions,
or together, as it would best suit the Purchaser. Said House is situ-
ated very conveniently for a Tavern, and has been improved as such for Ten
Years past, with a Number of other Conveniences, too many to enum-
erate. And the Purchaser may depend upon having a good warrantee Deed of the
same, and the bigger Part of the Pay made very easy, on good
Security. The whole of the Farming Tools, and Part of the stock, will
be sold as above mentioned, at the Subscriber's House on said Farm."

Groton, August 30, 1773. George Peirce.

The grist mill and saw mill mentioned in the advertisement were on
Nonacoicus Brook. In the Gazette, November 15, 1773, another notice
appears, which shows that the tavern was not sold at the time originally
appointed. It is as follows:

"The Publick are hereby Notified that the sale of the Farm in Groton,
which was to have been the 3d Instant on the Premisses, at the House of
Mr. George Peirce, is adjourn'd to the house of Mr. Joseph Moulton,
Innholder in Boston, where it will certainly be Sold to the highest
Bidder, on Wednesday, the lst Day of December next, at 4 o'clock, P.M.

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