Nomination for Golden Ball Tavern

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Form 10-300 (July 1969) PH00NG195 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE STATE: Massachusetts?

COUNTY: Middlesex NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM RECEIVED (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) ENTRY NUMBER SEP 281972- NAME COMMON: Golden Ball Tavern AND/ OR HISTORIC: Captain Jones' in weston LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: 662 Boston Post Road CITY OR TOWN: Weston STATE Massachusetts CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY (Check One) District Site Building Structure "at the Sign of the golden-bal1" Congressional District 4 CODE COUNTY: 025 Middlesex CODE 017 OWNERSHIP STATUS Object - Public Public Acquisition: Private In Process Both - Being Considered perpetual trust f/b/o people Occupied Unoccupied * Preservation work L in progress ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC Yes: Restricted Unrestricted No PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Government Commercial Industrial Educational Military Entertainment X Museum Park Private Residence Religious Scientific - Transportation - Other (Specify) community center - Comments OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: Golden Ball Tavern Trust STREET AND NUMBER: Box 223 or c/o 39 Crescent Street CITY OR TOWN: Weston 5.

LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Middlesex County Courthouse STREET AND NUMBER: Fourth Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE: Massachusetts CODE 025 STATE CODE Cambridge Massachusetts REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: State-wide Plan for Historic Preservation, first edition DATE OF SURVEY: 1970 Federal X State DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBÉR: Archives Museum, State House CITY OR TOWN: STATE: 025 - County - Local 28 1972 Boston Massachusetts CODE 025 STATE: COUNTY: ENTRY NUMBER DATE FOR NPS USE ONLY DESCRIPTION (Check One) - Deteriorated Excellent * Good - Fair - Ruins CONDITION (Check One) X Altered - Unaltered - Moved - Unexposed (Check One) Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Golden Ball Tavern, built in 1768, stands on the Boston Post Road in Weston. It is probably the best example in the town of the final phase of Georgian Colonial architecture. The main portion of this clapboard house, measuring 38 by 42 feet, is a two-story, five by three bay structure with a high, double-hip roof and twin interior chimneys. Each facade of the house is broken by regularly spaced 12/12 sash windows and a center door. On the main (north) facade, the door is flanked by simple pilasters which support a full entablature with a modillioned cornice. Five transom lights break the entabla- ture. A cornice similar to that above the entablature runs around the main block of the Tavern at the eave line. A golben ball, the trademark of the Tavern, hangs from a metal bracket mounted above this doorway. An ell was added to the eastern end qf the house at an early date.

A large two-story ell, originally aseparate house, was added to the western end of the Tavern about 1800 and is thought to predate it. Adjoining this western ell are two other structures which have recently been converted into an apartment for a custodian. The barn, whose frame includes five pairs of gunstock posts, is the only other building still standing on the Tavern property. The barn is believed to date from the same period as the main house. M The house plan is basically that of two rooms on either side of a central - hall. Each of the rooms has a fireplace. Two additional fireplaces originally z faced each other in the attic; one is still intact. The twin chimneys rest on barrel arches in the basement. Marks have been found on the ceiling of a ground floor room indicating the location of the plank partition of the ori- 4 ginal bar.

A small second floor room is presumed to have been the innkeeper's z office for it retains the original built-in ledger cupboard and its window overc the eastern door would have given a view of the comings and goings of patrons. The hallway on the ground floor retains the original panelling and the straight? staricase with its beautifully detailed balusters. At the top of the stair- case, in the central hall, is a panelled wall with an inset door. .When the - door is swung back, this wali becomes two separate partitions, each of which is hinged at the top and can be raised to the ceiling and hooked. Raising thisz hanging wall converts a single chamber into a larger room incorporating the second floor hallway. The present owners of the Golden Ball have undertaken an extensive study of the building with the assistance of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

The goal of the owners is not to "restore" the Tavern to its original appearance but to rehabilitate it for viable use while retaining the best of the changes made in the building by the Jones family over a period of nearly two hundred years. 19 110 9 RECÊIVED APR 18 NATIONA REGISTER U C

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Pre-Columbian| 16th Century 15th Century 17th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1768, 1775 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal.. Education Prehistoric Engineering Historic Industry Agriculture Invention Architecture Landscape Art Architecture Commerce Literature Communications Military Conservation Music -* 18th Century 19th Century - 20th Century Political Religion/Phi- losophy Science Sculpture Social/Human- itarian Theater & Transportation Urban Rlarkühg) Othan (specity) REGIF® STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

The Golden Ball Tavern, probably the best example in the Town of Weston of the final phase of Georgian Colonial architecture, was built in 1768 by Captain Isaac Jones. Though Jones was a prominent citizen, even serving as Selectman in 1772, it was his reputation as a Tory sympathizer in the " period immediately before the American Revolution that involved him in the events which give the Tavern its primary historical significance. On March 28, 1774, three months after a similar "social event" in Boston, the Golden Ball was the scene of the Weston Tea Party. Captain Jones was rumored to be selling tea on which he had paid the British duty. A group of townspeople gathered in disguise at the Golden Ball to relieve Captain Jones of his stock of tea.

Finding neither Captian Jones nor the tea, the group broke windows, ransacked the house and helped themselves to the taproom supplies before returning home. No further incidents occurred until the following year when General Gage decided to seize rebel arsenals before they became dangerously large. In February, 1775, Gage sent Captain William Brown and Ensign Henry de Berniere to estimate the preparedness of the countryside between Boston and Worcester, where military supplies had been stored by the Liberty men. The spies stayed overnight at the Golden Ball on their way to Worcester and on their return. Here they prepared the reports and sketches which General Gage had requested. later another British spy arrived at the Golden Ball on a similar mission.

In his memoirs, John Howe wrote, "On the 5th of April, 1775, General Gage called on me to go as a spy to Worcester, to examine the roads, bridges and fording places and to see which was the best route to take an army to destry the military stores deposited there." Fearing trouble, Captain Jones moved Howe to the house of another British sympathizer in a more remote section of Weston. Later that night the Tavern was searched by a group of townspeople who intended to seize the spy and tar and feather him. and ather ched by a group of townspeople "Capt. Jones set on a bottle of spirit to drink, which they drank, Howe, like Brown and de Berniere, reported that if General Gage sent troops to Worcester over the Weston route, not a man would get back to Boston alive.

If Gage's three spies had returned more favorable reports, there might well have been a Battle of Weston instead of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The objective was the same. By the end of the Revolution, Captain Jones seems to have shifted his loyalties and records show him working for the American cause. He regained his prominence in Weston and in 1778 and 1779 and again from 1784 to 1789 served as Selectman. During the latter period, Jones was also Modertor of Weston and a Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts. The tavern business in Weston dealined sharply after the construction (see fontinuation sheet) 10

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES A Journal Kept by Mr. John Howe while Employed as a British Spy During the Revolutionary War. Concord, New Hampshire, 1827. "Scouting Expedition in February, 1775, of Capt. Brown and Ensign D'Berniere, " printed in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, second series IV, p. 204. Stout, Neil. "The Spies Who Went Out in the Cold," American Heritage. February, 1972.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY R CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN AÇRES LONGITUDE Minutes Seconds NW 42 LATITUDE Minutes Seconds 21' 57 Degrees 71° 18 36 " NE : SE SW APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: 6 1/3 acres (building and grounds) ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY CODE 008LOS 9h/ eb STATE: CODE 50 COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: STATE: CODE COUNTY: 972 ÊNVE REC APR/18 NATIONA REGIS CODE CODE FORM PREPARED NAME AND TITLE: Anne R.

Wardwell, Survey Director ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission STREET AND NUMBER: Archives Museum, State House CITY OR TOWN: Boston STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION (PAM) DATE March 30, 1972 STATE CODE :025 Massachusetts NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: National State Local Name huttDonnen JOHN F.X.DAVOREN Secretary of the Commonwealth, Title Chairman, Massachusetts Historical Commission XA520001 I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register.

Pokertn Uteu Chier, Oftice of Archeoloky and Hisforic Preservation Date 9/25/12 ATTEST: Date April 6, 1972 Date Wrlennflemt 9-28-72 Form 10-300a (July 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Continuation Sheet) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Middlesex FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER SEP 2 0 19/2 DATE (Number all entries) 8. Significance (continued) of the Worcester Turnpike in 1805 diverted a good deal of traffic from the Post Road, which had been the main route from Boston to Connecticut, New York, and Pennsylvania as well as New Hampshire and Vermont. The Golden Ball ceased to serve the public about this time. However, the Jones family, six generations in all, continued to live here until 1963, when the last heir died.

The building was purchased privately and given to the Golden Ball Tavern Trust to serve as a museum and community center for Weston. Rehabilitation has been going on since then. Though work is far from complete, the building has already been opened for school tours and meetings of local organizations. 7L 1101 RECÊiVED APR 18 1972 NATIONAL REGISTE PLIIlI2LLe DATE OF RECEIPT 4-18-72 DATA PAGE PHOTO (S) PHOTO DESCRIPTION (S) MAP (S) MAP DESCRIPTION (S) LOGGED ACKNOWLEDGE 4-20-72 RESUBMIT REVIEW Middle suy PROPERTY GOLDEN BALh TAUERN STATE MASS YES NO NUMBER REGISTER SEP 2 8 1972 10 11112 18192 RECEIVED 1972 18 APR NATIONA! REGISTE HISTORIAN Olay. baler 4/27/72 ARCHEOLOGIST ARCHITECT ASST. KEEPER KEEPER WRITER/EDITOR OK Chambes 7-26-72 OX 9/28/72 DIRECTOR, OAHP EDITORIAL, PROCESSING, EDITOR What is F/blo people?

Federal Registry Entry 11-7-72 Annual Edition Entry Logged SEP 2 & 1972 Card_SEP 2 8 1972 COMMENTS: oh EDA 9/27/12 WORKING NUMBER 4-18-72- 508 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: NPS Number_. sept. 281972 972 Titlei Jaldes Ball Davein 400.- middesn Cputy, Dac. min (nuith) Yaade4 the Jeree, Partéllin g ells GOLDEN BALL TAVERN WESTON, MASS.

1969 CREDIT: GODEN BALL TAVERN TRUST main (worth) facade of the Taver, partial view of ells PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER IL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Middlesex FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER SEP 28 1972 DATE NAME COMMON: Golden Ball Tavern AND/OR HISTORIC:Captain Jones' in Weston LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: 662 Boston Post Road CITY OR TOWN: Weston STATE: Massachusetss "at the Sign of the golden-ball" CODE 025 COUNTY: Middlesex CODE 017 PHOTO CREDIT: DATE OF PHOTO: Golden Ball Tavern Trust 1969 NEGATIVE FILED GOiden Ball Tavern Turst, Box 223, Weston, Massachusettso| il0 DEI DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

main (north) facade of the Tavern, partial view of ells 10 RECEIVED APK 18 1972 NATIONAL REGISTE TE: Form 10-301 (July 1969) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) STATE Massachusetts COUNTY Middlesex FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER SEP 2 8 1972 DATE COMMON: Golden Ball Tavern AND/OR HISTORIC: Zaptain Jones' in Weston STREET AND NUM BER: 662 Boston Post Road CITY OR TOWN: Weston STATE: Massachusetts BECREN SOURCE: U.S.G.S. Natick, Mass. SCALE: 1:24,000 DATE: 1958 REQUIF TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

"at the Sign of the golden-tal1" CODE 025 COUNTY: Middlesex CODE 017 TE VAX REGIS 307 "Claypit Hill aSch 20' 1308 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 309 (CONCORD) IVINE MI. TO MASS. II7 183 Tower MAINE igeon 311 17'30" BM -103 CHOSTONEM1- Cherry Braak .Strtion 2!Aton VEWegan 4202/57r. 18'36" Country Sch- -langa ROA Sen! Weston Gotf Club icL WESTON, MASS. GOLDEN BALL TAVERN ü.s.G.S. NATICK, MASS, Scale 1:24,000 1958 18 Tg1 APK RECEIVED 28 REGIS TON 1932 10: Norumboga Reserioir Po HULYMAN Camp .Mary Day Nonesuch Pond TELEPRONE: 542-1030 CABLE ADDRESS: DAMSITE BOSTON 1969 HOWARD GAMBRILL, JR. 79 MILK STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02109 July 23, 1969 Mr. Robert M. Utley, Chief Division of History U. S. Department of the Interior National Park Service Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation 801 19th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Dear Mr.

Utley: At Abbott Cummings' suggestion I am writing you to ask consideration for having The Golden Ball Tavern nominated for The National Register. Mr. Cummings suggested I use his name, and your Mr. Orville Carroll of the Minute Man National Historic Park is also familiar with the Tavern and the work we are doing there. We are trying to do the most accurate and scholarly job of restora- tion we can possibly do, looking to experts for guidance wherever we can find them - and the SPNEA is our foremost lead in this. We understand that your procedures, your documentation methods and specifications would be of immense value to us and therefore we make this application in the hope of having the advantage of your techniques.

I might add that Penelope Hartshorn Batcheler in your Philadelphia office has been of enormous help to us and through you I would like to thank her and that office for their accurate and helpful guidance in our search for the exact bottom coat of paint. The Golden Ball Tavern is located in Weston, Massachusetts at the street address 662 Boston Post Road. Its mail address is Box 223, Weston, Mass. 02193. While contemporary (1760-1780) references to the Tavern are several, and papers of its innkeeper are available, I shall not clutter you up with these in my first letter. Rather, I enclose a few of the things we've already printed in the hope you will be sufficiently interested to guide us as to such further moves on our part as might be in order.

I might add that while we have a phone at the Tavern, no one is usually there and if any of your people are in the neighborhood and should want to reach us, a call to my office at 79 Milk Street, Boston, phone (617) 542-1030 or, if no answer, to the home of Mr. H. C. Lucas, (617) 899-2133 would bring a response for a possible meeting. We will greatly appreciate any consideration you may give us. Very truly yours, Howard Gambrill, Jr. Trustee 1130-1N July 31 19 69 dollesex 6 Macs N=. Howari Canurill, Jr. Trustee The Gelden toll Tavern Trust 79 Hllk Street Doston. Haasachusotts 02180 Dear r. Canlrill: This 19 ln aasver to your lotter of July 23 to i. Sebert , Utley regardins the Golden 3e11 Tavern in Nenton, Massachnsetts.

The Mational Ilistorle Prenervation Aet of 1066 (Public Law 39-565) provides for tha expanston of the Natfonal of illstortc Plsces, the coreof& faderally-assistad progran for the preservntion ef archeeleglesl, architectural, and historical properties in the Untred States. The Act offers a degreo of protection for the places 1isted therain fros adverso affect by any federaily-fanded undertaking. It aiso sets ferth provisions foz Pederal matching erants-ir-aid to the states, and through theg, to individuals and orgamizations for prosorvation projects. Properties are nocinated to tha National Iegister by a State Meisen OFficer who has been appointed by the atato govornor. Federal funds to the states are channoled through. the State Liuisen Offleer for varlous preservation projects. He suggest that you contact the Massschusetts State Lialson Officer, Kon. John F. X.

Davoren, Seeratary of the Consonuoaith, Chalrsan, Massschusetts #ilsterieal Conaission, Boston, Massachusettz 02133. The exeaplary wanner in which your organization 15 restorins the Dolden Ball Tavern eeuld hopefully provlde an exeellent oxasple ef what can be dong in the preservatlen fleld when sincere Interest, Intrieate care, and a tharough sanse of hiscorte responsibility is applied to rastoration. Sincerely yours, William J. Murtagh (Sgdo) Millias J. Kurtath Keeper of che Natfonal Rerister CC: Hon. Joha I. X. Davoren Regional Director, Northeast w/c inc. HR T BHochstetler:jah THE TRUSTEES OF THE GOLDEN BALL TAVERN TRUST BOX 223 WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02193 February 4, 1972 Mr. Willian J. Murtagh Keeper of the National Pegister National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, D. C. 20240 Dear Mr.

Murtagh: Reference: H30-HR Your letter of July 31, 1969, referring to the Golden Ball Tavern in Weston, Massachu- setts, gave me a crutch of help which we've badly needed these past two years while the Massachusetts Commission struggled with their own heavy load. There is now some hope that work on us at the ocal end may be nearing completion and I write you in the hope that perhaps ii there is a watchful eye in Washington, the ball might be kept rolling! Meanwhile, you may be interested in the "tea party" which took place at the Tavern three months after the Boston tea party, and I enclose prints of the contemporaneous news items. Also, in the February issue of American Heritage is a very amusing account of the British spies who headquartered at the Tavern in tebruary, 1775, entitled "The Spies Who Went Out in the Cold." Sincerely yours, Stwan@mmbragh Howard Gambrill, Jr. Chairman Enc.

MASS. SPy Marchi217y aroryait li burans tad, nvero ruo, leee HEARTS oF STEEL. Prr de MASSACHUSETTS SPY. Mr. THowas, tet te flleng a plare ie yoae ajefel p r, yoa wwill ablige a /ab/eniter est ael reader. Tia oe tyartedameans of opar m d.at Ar who has lacely dad a cmafderavie gaantity of :c. :p. pt. The "leston Tea Party BOSTON POST-Bor March28-April4,1774 60--. wience they came. We heartiom Wifton in the County of Middlefex, Sihit on Aionday Evening the aift of Inftant, a Num- yer of People appeared bufore the Houle of Capt. Ifaac Jones, Iunholder, in thet Town, gave a loud Indian WHOOP, and immediately went off without fpeiking to any Perfon in the Huufe:-That on Monday Night laft betwéen nine and ter vclock, aNumber of Perfons, fuppufed near one hundred again appeared there, and Capt.

Jones having that Morning gone a Journey to Uxbridge, they feil to breaking the Windows of the Houfe Itove in all in the lower Room;, and then the Chamber, Mrs. Jones was then in Ked with a young Infant, having lain in zbout three Weeks, the Windows of her Room did not efcape hut the lay expufed to the Inclemency of theWiather, it being raiey, two Hours : -Near 3o of the People entered difguifed with Paints, Paper V.lfages, &c. - ard sanfackeri the whole Houfe from Cellar to Garret, without breaking down any Part excepting tio Pannels of a Partition : Being afked what they were in Scarch of, they faid, Jones, and wou!d have him; but being told he was gone a Journey, they mode free with the Buittles of Li quor in the Cellir, as alfo thic Liquers that were in the Bai-Room breaking or carrying off the Bowls, Mugs, &c. alfe about 100 Lemors, and haifa Cafksef Raifins : -S.

veral of them were known by the Feople in the Hrufe and called to by Name, when they wert off.-Several other Circum- ftances upon this Difcorery, our Informant fuppoles will be given a Particular Account is taken. A Militay Watch was thought necelfary, accord. ing'y the Colonel ordered one from the Militia in Weiton, to be every Night. Capt. Jones purchaftd Tea at Albany laft Winter, not fubject to a Duty, and had retailed it our,which is faid to he the Caufe of this Refentment againft him. We hear from Marblehead that one Evening laft - Week, a Fellow was delected in bringing from the Hofpital at Car.Msod rhied of him traaly, porwich tandig ede Cacred reiolutions tbey he1 cacered into, pot to ufe, nuch les luv ear Teel or be concsrned with any períon char dad, ciser dimedly or indiredly. Now if this whae can be the sdvantage of our wwa-l and rcéolves !

Il i is not irne, does ios the infoleace of this arrogant boeDer dekare ebe faverest chafifementt Or indoed, wbich are che more mo. wy to ba def. pifed by their inj ured counbynien/ The ebor eter to the poulse for sa iopartial anfwer, befcet I proceod to ponst out 20:01 oes or perfca. USticuS Marib 1. 1774. MASS. SPY Prope bnnsx jobazakS Ka1dny : Or ghe Maffechufirta and New. Hempthire Gi=.rsl Advertilor Nywauar-PoRT, Marrb ). I.As Iitayhee AST Berurlay being the ennivelary of BOSTON EVENING POST Aprilti22r foors cire sfter. Pctieots, is Muruady Order of that theos in at dyorderolbatolr ocbe -We hear fion Welton, that laft Monday Nighr tetween g and to øClock, a Number of Perfous as cbied before thie Etrule of Cepe. Waac Jones, Ina A holder ehore, wrere they broke all the Windows, am 6i eheat go of thero, difguifed with Pzins, &c.

entered the Rocos and ranfacked the Houfe frora the Cellar to the Garres, in fearch, es they faid, of Mi.Joors, wbom they were determised to find: but being in- formed thes be was gone a Journey, they then thade Cice with the Liquore in the Cellar and Bar-Room Breaking or earrying of the Bawls, Mors, dc. alfo ebour a huodred. of Letamons aod half a Calk of Raifina; feverah of them, tis faid, were known, and Peing cailed by Nges, they all foon efses weas off. It ia faid tbis Befcotment again Cart. Joncs was eccationed by bis hariog retailed out forae Tea, which Es purchafed ar Albapy Laft Wihter. ,A orlitary Watch was thooght heceflary, and ac. ordiogiy da Coloael ordercd oue from the Militi what lownto be kept etery Night * Ihe Stio Miales, Scosr, G from Böffon, and ths Trifram, Shand, from Rhode Maod, errived at MASSSPY April 7,1774 boufe ecn ren ald

brake up at z quarter patt four o'cloc nd zitoured till thi day min, are thaelata fil Mcoa, nech d lte Cims- ible -71, sies xen 191, Dert inly de. ent, cafe d tc du- ncle. ciry ev filu For te MASSACHUSETTS SPY ihe PUNLIC. IT foems by the refeniment fewa bya nambe: -journey in ur country, thatI baredone thinz that caufed their refertment, and 1know bringing fom noa mrtm Ai banyd bercimpe lay bringi wfem than fuppofed wodlu pot hare offcaded any tud; as itpaia no duty in America; butfinue Terdi: has. Iwoukdinform the public thai! amforr lizt1hare offended ihem, and an dezerminad not to ofead un råe like manrer fer the tusure, for it inwell known thae I nave ocen as marh fet againfl the dutied rea de sny perfon wtarrrer. ISAAC JONKS. W,ton, dmif, 1774. MASS.SPK APRITAAL7 FEB 1 8 1972 Saules 4/18/22 fed or 418//2 H34-HR Mr. Howard Gambrill, Jr.

Chairnan The Golden Ball Tavern Irust Box 223 Weston, Massachusetts 02193 Dear Mr. Gambr111: Thank you for your recent letter with its interesting enelosures concerning the Golden Ball Tavern in Weston, Massachusetts. We are happy to have this most interesting material for our historical flles, and we very much appreciate your keeping us posted on your progress at the local level. Sincerely yours, /s/ S. Sydney Bradford for William J. Murtagh Keeper of the lational Register cc: I - Mr. Winge HR w/cy inc. FSarles:slc:2-17-72 ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered STATE MASSACHUSETTS SEP 2 8 1972 Name Location Golden Ball Tavern Weston Middlesex County Also Notified Hon. Edwaxd M. Kennedy Ion. Bdwazd W. Brooke Hon. Earold D. Donohue Director, Northeast Region HR NRowland :mm 9/28/72 State Liaison Officer Hon. John F. X.

Davozen Seczetary of the Commonvealth Chaizman, Massachusetts Historical Comniasion office of the Secretary, State House Boaton, Massachusetta 02133 NOTIFICATION OF GRANT-IN-AID ACTION 1. STATE APPLICATION IDENTIFIER 2. (Reserved for use by State central information reception agency) 740 70490 3. GRANTOR: a. Federal agency Department of the Interior b. Organizational unit National Park Service c. Administering office - (1) Name Division of Grants (2) Address - Street or P.O. Box 18th and C Streets Nw. 4. FEDERAL AGENCY GRANT IDENTIFIER: a. Code b. Title 25-75-00306-00 City Washington State DC Zip Code 20240 Golden Ball Tavern Development c. Purpose The Tavern, built in 1768, is significant as an example of local Georgian Colonial architecture. Project work includes roofing, a smoke detection system & architectural services. 5. GRANTEE: a. Name Massachusetts Mrs. Elizabeth R.

Amadon, Exec. Dir., MA Historical Commission b. Address - Street or P.O. Box City 40 Beacon St. State Boston MA Zip Code 02108 6. GRANTEE TYPE (Check only the single most applicable box) a. State b. Inter- c. County d. City state e. School - district f. Special unit g. Community action h. Sponsored orgonization i. Orher 7. APPLICATION RECEIPT DATE 8. ACTION DATE Yeor Month Day Year Month 75 02 28 75 03 Day 31 9. EFFECTIVE STARTING DATE Year Month Day 75 / 03 - 31 11. TYPE OF ACTION (Check as many boxes as apply to this action) o. New b. Continuation c. Supplementol d. Change in existing grant grant grant grant (identify agency in item 16) (1) Increase in (2) Decrease in (3) Cancellation duration duration 10. ENDING DATE Year Month 78 03 Day 30 (4) Increose($) (5) Decrease(s) 12. AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTION o. Federal - (1) basic (2) Supplemental $ 4,000 13.

CATALOG OF FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (if none, clarify in item 16) b. State $4,000* a. Program Number 15.904 c. Local d. Other b. Supplemental Program Number 14. AUTHORIZATION a. Federal Budget Accounts b. Public Laws 10-58-1040-0-1-405 PL Title Sec. 89 665 c. U.S. Code 16 U.S.C. 470 15. FACILITY LOCATION: (For facility grant actions only) o. City 662 Boston Post Road, Weston PL Title Sec. PL Title Sec. b. County Middlesex 16. REMARKS *Golden Ball Tavern Trust Do Not Use This Space Prepared by Ralph E. Thomas 523(139)-5054 STANDARD FORM 2. June 1970 Bureau of the Budget Circular A-98 240-101