Deborah Fisher

[1][a] When she and her second husband, Richard Woodward, sued a relative over the will and estate of her father, they hired John Adams as their lawyer.

[1] After her husband Nathaniel died in 1764, Fisher successfully ran the tavern for several years with the help of several of her sons.

[1][6][2][b] According to a later family biography, "inn keeping was a favorite occupation with her and she carried natters with a high hand.

"[1] As an inn keeper, she was compared to Meg Dods, the innkeeper in the 19th century novel Saint Ronan's Well.

[2][1] Before they did, however, the convention that adopted the Suffolk Resolves met in the tavern and began their work.