Goody Armitage (fl. 1643), was the first woman to be licensed as an innkeeper in America.
There is next to no information available about Goody Armitage except that she was living in Massachusetts Bay in 1643 and that when she petitioned for a license she was approved to serve meals but 'not to draw wine' making her the first woman to be licensed as an innkeeper in colonial America. Her establishment is also listed as the first restaurant.[1][2][3][4]
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- ^ Purvis, Thomas L. (14 May 2014). Colonial America To 1763. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-0799-8.
- ^ Olsen, Kirstin (1994). Chronology of Women's History. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6.
- ^ Bridenbaugh, Carl (14 January 2013). Cities in the Wilderness - The First Century of Urban Life in America 1625-1742. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4474-8587-2.
- ^ Staff, New England Historic Genealogical Society (September 1995). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 33 1879. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-0293-7.