A family that drove our horse under the shed 1652 - 1817

A family that drove our horse under the shed 1652 - 1817

A family that drove our horse under the shed 1652 - 1817

"John Endicott, 1652."
"John Endicott, 1696."
"John Endicott, 1749."
"John Endicott, 1784."
"John Endicott, 1817."

As our eyes read over this list, we were struck with the stability of a family who for many consecutive generations had occupied, by the same name, that venerable spot, and ministered to the comfort of as many generations of travelers, and incontinently took off our hat in respect to the record of so much worth, drove our horse under the shed, had him fed, went in, and took a quiet family dinner with the civil, good-tempered host, and the equally kind-mannered hostess, then in the prime of life, surrounded with a fine family of children, and heard from his own lips the history of his ancestors, from their first emigration from England - not in the Mayflower, to whose immeasurable accommodations our good New England ancestors are so prone to refer - but in one of her early successors.