Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 50
riots, phaetons, &c. in allBoston. In October, 1631, Governor Winthrop went on footto Lynn and Salem, and until there were roads it is obviousthere was little use for wheeled vehicles, even for such ascould afiord them. In 1750 there were only a few carriages,and these, chariots and coaches.… … WINTHROP FORDING THE RIVER. * Town Records. 26 LANDMARKS OF BOSTON. was also set up by Adino Paddock, in 1762, who called it theBurling Coach, from its London prototype. Paddock wasa coachmaker by trade; we shall have occasion to notice himin these pages. The next public veliicle was a small…
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