![]() It also maintains genealogical records showing descent from colonial tavern-keeping ancestors. Its goals are to collect information on taverns, tavernkeepers, tavern customs, recipes, and menus. The Flagon and Trencher: Descendants of Colonial Tavern Keepers was established in 1962. When opening or relocating, a taverner or innkeeper advertised in newspapers by giving a statement of proprietorship and the location. ![]() “Philadelphia had an extraordinary number of public houses, and many were needed for the city had a vast number of visitors, and a great current of immigration poured into that port,” noted historian Alice Morse Earle. In early Pennsylvania, there were a large number of taverns-especially following the Revolutionary War. The justices would then consider the petitioner’s ability “to keep good and sufficient accommodations for travellers, their horses, and attendants.” A 50-pound bond was required, approved by the court, for the condition of keeping “an orderly and decent house.” The license was for a one-year term, subject to annual renewal-“if the court think proper.” Inferior court justices, at the first term of every year, set rates and prices charged at taverns for liquors, diet, lodging, and stabling. In Georgia, for instance, an amended law in 1791 required that would-be tavernkeepers petition the inferior court. Proprietors of taverns (also known as a “grog shop” or “dram shop”) were required to petition court for a license which was annually renewable. If your ancestor was a taverner or innkeeper, you might locate records of his or her proprietorship (such as receipts, licenses, and account books) at a historical society or at a university archive.
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