Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs (1917) (14784546972)

Identifier: oldbostontaverns00dra (find matches)

Title: Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs

Year: 1917 (1910s)

Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) Clubx

Publisher: Boston, W. A. Butterfield

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ow ofEdmund Jackson, mortgages her house, known by the nameof Flower de Luce, in tenure of Christopher Crow. George, west side of Washington Street, near the Rox-bury line. The land was a grant of the town to JamesPerm in 1644. In 1652 he deeds, as a gift, five acres toMargery, widow of Jacob Eliot, for the use of her children.In 1701 Eliezer Holyoke and wife Mary (Eliot) convey toStephen Minot. In 1701-02 Minot petitions for a license tokeep an inn or tavern at his house, nigh Roxbury gate.This is disapproved. In 1707 the George Tavern is men-tioned. In 1708-09 Samuel Meeres petitions to sell strongdrink as an innholder at the house of Stephen Minot, in theroom of John Gibbs, who is about to quit his license, and in1722-23 he was still an innholder there. In 1726 SimonRogers was licensed. In 1733- Stephen Minot, Jr., inheritsthe George Tavern, now in occupation of Simon Rogers. In1734-35 occupied by Andrew Haliburton. In 1768 GideonGardner was licensed. Stephen Minot, Jr., conveys to

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LIST OF TAVERNS AND TAVERN OWNERS. 109 Samuel and William Brown in 1738; William Brown toAaron Willard in 1792. In 1770 Thomas Bracket was ap-proved as a taverner in the house on the Neck called theKings Arms, formerly the George Tavern, lately kept byMrs. Bowdine. Aug, 1, 1775, the George Tavern was burntby the Regulars, writes Timothy Newell in his diary. George, corner Dock Square and Elm Street, see Castle. Globe, northeast corner of Commercial and Hanoverstreets. In the Book of Possessioyis the estate of WilliamDouglass. Eliphalet Hett and wife Ann (Douglass) inherit;Nathaniel Parkman and wife Hannah (Hett) inherit. In1702 Hannah Parkman conveys to Edward Budd ; Budd toJames Barnard in 1708. Barnard to John Greenough in1711. In the division of the Greenough estate this was setoff to William and Newman Greenough. Greenough toJoseph Oliver in 1779. Oliver to Henry H. Williams in1788. In 1741 and 1787 the Globe Tavern is mentioned inthe Toion Records. Goat, locality not stated; in 1

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