An innkeeper. The word is traced back to 1464. It is probably obsolete even in the U.S.
1769. Notice of the death of “Capt. Christopher Turner, a noted Innholder, very remarkable for keeping an excellent House of Entertainment, under the strictest Regularity and good Order.”—Boston Post-boy, Sept. 11.
1771. A Vendue at the house of Capt. David Goodridge, Innholder in Fitchburg.—Boston-Gazette, Oct. 7.
1772. At the house of Mr. Martin Kellog, Inholder in Amherst.—Mass. Spy, June 11.
1772. Goods advertised as “Stolen out of the house of Mr. Perrey, innholder.”—Id., Nov. 19.
1775. I have with pleasure attended to the dry jokes you used to crack for the entertainment of your guests, when an Innholder.—Boston-Gazette, Jan. 9.
1789. Lieut. John. Stowers is described as “Innholder in Worcester.”—Mass. Spy, Oct. 1.
1798. Any person licensed as an Innholder, Tavernkeeper, Victualler, &c.—‘Act of Assembly,’ Mass., June 27.
1805. Dialogue between an innholder and his hostler.—The Balance, Nov. 12, p. 361/2.
1810. Deacon Nathan Heard, Innholder in Worcester.—Mass. Spy, June 13.
1813. The house of Morris Marcey, innholder in Honest-town, so-called, in the South-East corner Sturbridge.—Id., June 23.
