{"id":4935,"date":"2012-09-21T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2012-09-27T01:26:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T05:26:17","slug":"david-saxton-house-1763","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"David Saxton House (1763)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The David Saxton House<\/a>, on Old Main Street in Deerfield, was operated for a time as a tavern and was a meeting place for Whigs (Patriots)<\/a> during the American Revolution. As recorded in<\/a> George Sheldon’s A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts<\/em>, Vol. 2 (1896):<\/p>\n

The big dish of tea made in Boston harbor, December 16th, 1773<\/a>, stimulated the blood of two continents. David Field was in Boston that day, and when he brought the news there was a jollification meeting at David Saxton’s tavern. When the meeting broke up the mellow Whigs woke the echoes of the night by proclaiming about the town the exploits of those men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recent dendrochronology testing<\/a> has identified the construction date of the house<\/a> as 1763. I believe this house is the one described by George Sheldon in his book<\/a> entitled The Little Brown House on the Albany Road<\/a><\/em> (1915).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The David Saxton House, on Old Main Street in Deerfield, was operated for a time as a tavern and was a meeting place for Whigs (Patriots) during the American Revolution. As recorded in George Sheldon’s A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Vol. 2 (1896): The big dish of tea made in Boston harbor, December 16th, 1773, stimulated the blood of two continents. David Field was in Boston that day, and when he brought the news there was a jollification meeting at David Saxton’s tavern. When the meeting broke up the mellow Whigs woke the echoes of the night by proclaiming about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47,8,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonial","category-deerfield","category-houses","category-taverns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}