New London County CT Archives News.....Stonington's Old Taverns (Part 3) March 1907
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Clipping From Unidentified Stonington-area Newspaper March 1907
   At Old Mystis, opposite uncle Horace Williams' store, stands the Leonard 
Williams house, virtually unchanged since 1807 when his father, Amos Williams, 
owned and kept it as a hotel, or the old Wayside Inn.  Here stopped the four-
horse stages that ran from Providenve to New London and travelers were regaled 
and fed at the bar.  It was made quite famous the day the Lexington was burned, 
Jan. 17th, 1840, by the arrival of Daniel Webster, who had reached Stonington 
from Boston on his way to Washington, and Mr. Capron, who kept the steamboat 
hotel, where Mr. Webster put up, hired Russell Wheeler to carry him in a sleigh 
to the ferry at Groton.  When they reached Old Mystic, being chilly, they 
stopped at the tavern and warmed both the inner and outer man and then 
proceeded on their way to Groton, where they called on Mother Bailey of 
Revolutionary fame.  
   Just beyond the Anguilla Baptist meeting house, which is now a barn, on the 
farm belonging to William York, stands the old James Noyes house, where in the 
spring of 1838, on a knoll in front of the house, was assembled the 6th 
Company, 8th Regiment, 3rd Brigade of Conn. Militia, for their training.  The 
officers of this Company were Richard A. Wheeler, captain; Amos Chesebrough, 
lieutenant; Ezra Wheeler, ensign; while the musicians were John Vincent, who 
played the key bugle, Jophn D. Wheeler, clarinet, George Frink, fife, Dudley 
Davis the snare drum and Albert Vincent the bass drum, and after the usual 
drill in the morning Mr. Collins, who lived there, served dinners to the 
company.  This was not a tavern, but like many another country house was where 
food could be obtained by the passing travelller.  Mr. Amos Chesebrough, one of 
these officers, is yet living, and might be able to tell us of the other old 
taverns in our town, besides these which I have mentioned.
                                    GRACE D. WHEELER

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