In 1658, Corporal John Andrews was complained of in court by the most prominent men in town for keeping the doors of his inn open past nine o’clock, entertaining young men in devious ways, and selling wine upon pretense of selling by the gallon and yet drawing it by the pint. Their petition against the renewal of his liquor license was granted by the Court. Andrews sold the inn to Richard Dummer the following year and moved to Chebacco Parish (Essex), after vandalizing the properties of the complainers.
Structural elements from Cpl. John Andrews’s ordinary and later 17th-century owners still exist as a room in the front east end of the Georgian house at 34 High Street, where First Period summer beams have been uncovered. The house gained its present form in 1763 under the ownership of Jeremiah Lord and his son Jeremiah Jr. Around the year 1800, the central chimney was removed and replaced with two side chimneys, with a Federal-era stairway constructed in the area where the central chimney once stood.
Read more about the White Horse Inn at the Historic Ipswich site.
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