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In 1789, President George Washington stayed at Joseph Ingersoll's inn at this site while visiting Boston. Massachusetts Governor John Hancock's visit to meet Washington here is regarded as an early acceptance of federal sovereignty over that of individual states. Daniel Webster later had law offices here, and Boston grocer S.S. Pierce started a thriving and long-lived provisions business in 1831.
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