6. Richardson Sells the Middlesex Hotel

John Richardson left Concord in 1805 and moved to Boston. Retiring after the death in 1811 of his partner in the importing business in Boston, he moved to Newton. He died in 1837.

In 1825, Richardson was ready to sell the Middlesex Hotel and to divest himself of his other Concord real estate. He advertised the hotel, the tanyard, a small house, several pieces of land, and a pew in the First Parish in the Columbian Centinel, a Boston newspaper. Thomas Wesson and Gershom Fay bought the hotel from Richardson.