…At the foot of the bed, behind the rocking horse,
is displayed a replica of the leather trunk
that John Hancock neglected to take with him after adjourning
his highly seditious meetings in this room on
April 18, 1775. Paul Revere and John Lowell had a hair-raising
adventure at dawn, even as the Redcoats arrived, as they barely
succeeded in keeping the trunk’s
incriminating contents from falling into enemy hands…
My kindly hostess Val Hoffman
describes this bed as the original “Murphy bed,”
by the way. You can just see a little hook in the molding at
the top of the far wall. Seems that Hancock and Co. would tip
the bed on its head and fasten it to that hook, so as to make
space in the room for their meeting table.
We have these photos by the courtesy of the
Lexington Historical Society,
owner of the Tavern and curator of the portraits…
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