Robert, who left England with his children and new wife, was likely more open-minded than Zachary.

He was listed as a “inn holder” on the passenger list of the ship The Defence, which docked in Boston in October 1635. Robert promptly purchased an important structure near the waterfront, which had previously housed Governor John Winthrop, and converted it into a bar.

He named it The Three Cranes, after a well-known London pub that had located near a dockyard.

The trio in the inn’s name were not birds, but wooden cranes employed to transport enormous barrels of wine into Vintry wharf nearby.

The now-demolished London bar was located on Upper Thames Street, which ran along the riverbank between Blackfriars Bridge and what is now Cannon Street.

It was the subject of some very disparaging comments in Samuel Pepys’ diary of 1661: “We all went over to the ‘Three Crane’ Taverne, and (though the best room in the house), in such a narrow dogghole we were crammed (and I believe we were near forty), that it made me loathe my company and victuals, and a sorry poor dinner it was too.”

The Three Cranes in America became a landmark in Charlestown, and Robert Long and his family ran it until 1775.

Ironically, men from his nation were the ones who put an end to it. During the American War of Independence, rebellious colonists occupied Bunker Hill, prompting British troops to remove them.

Rebel snipers in nearby Charlestown fired at the soldiers from their windows, while British cannon fire was directed at the town. The Three Cranes was one of the buildings.