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Show HISTORIC OLD SUM TAVERN One of Boston's Landmarks, Built In 1690, for Many Years Used as a Fish Market. One of the early taverns of Boston was the Sun tavern which stood but a few feet from the water's edge and was built about 1G00. For some years It was kept by a Huguenot from Eo-chelle Eo-chelle named Cosneau. He made It one of the most popular of taverns and It was particularly popular with the young men of Boston and surrouudlug country, partly for the reason that mine host Cogneau had several very attractive and llvelr daughters who added a great deal to the charms of the hostelry. Their father had the privillge of seeing two of them married mar-ried in the tavern, one of them becoming becom-ing the wife of Col. William Palfrey, j the famous Revolutionary patriot He became the grandfather of the noted writer, John G. Palfrey. Another daughter of this genial host of the Sun tavern married a successful printer named Fleet. During the siege of Boston the British seized the house and they changed its name to the King's Arms. But when the Red Coats had been chased out of Boston the sign of the King's Arms quickly disappeared disap-peared and the old sign of the Sun Tavern took Its place and the tavern took on Its olden time popularity. It has for many years been used as a fish market. |