Samuel Arnold, Jr. ♊

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1740: Arnold's Tavern was built on Commercial Street, near Weymouth Landing. It was located across the street from Wales Hotel which became the parish home of Sacred Heart Church's priests. http://www.whags.org/weymouth17001799.htm

Pefuse to pay Taxes to the Royal Treasurer. — Jan. 30, 1775, Deacon IS^athaniel Bayley was elected by the town as its delegate to the projposed Congress to meet at Cambridge, 1st of February next, the town to provide for him. The town also chose a committee to see that the inhabitants adhere strictly to their pledge ; and at the same meeting, renewed the vote to hold the constables harmless for not carrying their money for the year 1772 to " Harryson Gray," and ordered the money to be paid to the town treasurer. On the 13th of March, however, the latter vote was so far reconsidered as to direct the constables to pay the money to Henry Gardner of Stow .

Town Committee Correspondence. — ; A com- mittee of correspondence for "Weymouth, to act with those of the neighboring towns, had been chosen on the 9th of March, consisting of Dr. Tufts, Major Lovell, Major Yining, Capt. Asa "White and Mr. Josiah Colson. This committee met in Arnold's Tavern,

Business Enterprises. — With the increase of pop- ulation and wealth there came also a revival of business enterprises, and soon after the beginning of the nine- teenth century a new era of prosperity dawned upon the town, commencing at Weymouth Landing, at the head of tide- water on Fore River, and gradually extending over other parts of the town. In 1805 a turnpike was built through Weymouth, opening a more direct communication between Boston and Plymouth, by which the village at the Landing was largely the gainer. Under the lead of Capt. Samuel Arnold, Levi Bates and others, various branches of mechanical industry were started, and a new life infused into the community- Within a few years a large number of buildings were erected within a radius of half a mile. Many of them, in magnitude and value, have hardly been surpassed to the present day. Navigation was resumed, and quite a brisk trade carried on between the town and Boston by means of sailing packets, which ran regularly; and it was in these days that shoe man- ufacturing commenced, which has since grown into such vast proportions.

In 1800, March 10, there is found for the first time upon the records the warrant for the town meeting entered in full, a custom that has been continued ever since; and under date of May 11, 1801, are found the qualifications of voters at that time, who were to be twenty-one years of age, and to possess a freehold valued at sixty pounds, or one yielding an income of three pounds (free sufirage had not yet become the law of the land).

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to his son Jacob, in which case it has been in the hands of the family of its present owners two hundred and fourteen years.

The "Old Arnold Tavern," family tradition says, was erected by Capt. Alexander Nash; and since he was married in 1741, at the age of thirty-seven, and being a man of wealth and position, its age can undoubtedly be reckoned from that time, the old homestead being too strait and too unpretentious to accommodate the newly married couple, especially since the bride came from one of the aristocratic families of Abington. This house has, besides these, other and more important associations. It occupied a central position between Boston and Plymouth and Bridgewater, being at the fork of the road whence it branched off to either of the two latter places. It has also a Revolutionary history. Could its old walls reveal the secrets they have heard, undoubtedly many a tale of treason (to royal authority) would come to our ears, since here was the rendezvous of the Committee of Safety of this and nine of the

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neighboring towns, and here they held their sessions, with Hon, Cotton Tufts in the chair, and Capt. Asa White, acting secretary: but we must not dwell too long upon one point, or we shall riot have time to finish "

A little distance to the north, along the river, was the house occu.pied by Mr. Samuel Whitmarsh, bought by him in 1804 of Samuel Arnold, where the South Shore Railroad station is now located and a few rods below stood the residence of Mr. Asa Pratt, in which his son, the late Captain Cornelius, was born, owned in 1773 by Mr. John Tirrell, of honored memory, and earlier still by Mr. William Sargent. And just between that and the river (Strielt Brook) was another old building, used partly as a dwelling and partly as a storehouse for freight, afterwards the "Packet house ' " while nearly opposite, on the other side of the street, was the old house of widow Blanchard, occupied in 1730 by Mr. Jonathan White, and probably built by him about that time, upon the site of which Mr. Nathaniel Blanchard afterwards built his residence which is still standing.

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of Dea. John Vining, and then came the fence. The two last mentioned dwellings properly belonged to the territory of South Weymouth, but all of the others claimed allegiance to the Landing. No other dwellings known to the writer were existing at that time in the district described, although to the east, perhaps halfway to Front Street, was the "Ager farm," a name now almost extinct in town, but at that day one of no small importance. The dwelling has long since disappeared, and the once fine farm is lost amid the growth of wood and brush that now covers its then fertile acres.

During the succeeding generation wonderful changes came over the spirit and material prospects of the people, only less wonderful and astonishing to them than those that have taken place in the later years have been to us. Early in the present century, the turnpike, "Queen Anne's," was opened, giving more direct communication between Boston and Plymouth; and a few years later, the New Bedford pike, affording still greater facilities for travel. Lines of coaches between Plymouth, New Bedford, Bridgewater and Boston were established, passing directly through this village, most of which made it a stopping place, necessitating better hotel accommodations, and, as is usually the case, the man for the occasion appeared in the person of Capt. Samuel Arnold, and the "brick tavern" soon sprang into existence.

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Samuel was born in 1713. He is the son of Samuel Arnold and Sarah Webb.

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