Entre l'ancienne auberge de la Nouvelle-Angleterre ; être un compte de peu de voyages à différentes auberges pittoresques et hostelleries de Colonial New England . oston tradi-tionnel comptable news fait le voyage entre deux elevenoclock un matin et l'autre après-midi. Mais sur la route bonne présence entertainmentand ont été fournis pour le pas-messagers dans cet entraîneur ; et à Portsmouththey avait l'extrême bonheur d'être droppedat la porte du comte de Halifax, ou coachmans frère John exercé hos-pitable sway ! John a bénéficié tant de la création de la scène qu'en 1765 heleft Président son premier inn sur Queen

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Among old New England inns; being an account of little journeys to various quaint inns and hostelries of colonial New England . oston carrying impor-tant news made the journey between elevenoclock one morning and two the next after-noon. But on the road good entertainmentand attendance were provided for the pas-sengers in this coach; and at Portsmouththey had the extreme felicity to be droppedat the door of the Earl of Halifax, wherethe coachmans brother John exercised hos-pitable sway! John profited so much from the establish-ment of the Stage Chair that in 1765 heleft his first inn on Queen street for thestand which still survives, and which historyand romance have combined to make oneof the best-known buildings in Portsmouth.The new inn was completed in 1770 and theold sign of the Earl of Halifax wastransferred to identify the site. In the upperroom of this house the Masonic meetings ofSt. Johns lodge were for several years held, and the Grand Lodge of New Hampshirealso met here. But it is with a romantic marriage ratherthan with Masonry that the houses historyis chiefly bound up. For it was in the door- 296. THE EARL OF HALIFAX (STAVERS INN), PORTSMOUTH Portsmouth Publicans and Guests way of this inn that Dame Stavers in herfurbelows once said as plain as day Oh, Martha Hilton ! Fie! how dare you goAbout the town half dressed and looking so! only to receive from the barefooted girl shehad hoped to shame the laughing assurancethat she would yet ride in her own chariot.She did, too, for, as I have elsewhere * told, she very soon after made an ineradicableimpression upon Governor Benning Went-worth, leading personage in the Colony andowner of **.... A Great House looking out to sea, A goodly place, where it was good to be.* But it was also good to be at the Earl ofHalifax back in 1774 or thereabouts. Atany rate the Tories thought so and used togather nightly to drink to the King and hiscontinued prosperity. So much indeed wasthe house a place of resort for the ruffled

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