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Christiana Burdett Campbell (ca. 1723–March 25, 1792) was a colonial innkeeper from Williamsburg, Virginia. [1] [2] She started the business herself in an era where it was unusual for women to do so in the colony. [3] A replica of her tavern was built in Colonial Williamsburg and currently serves as a popular tourist attraction and restaurant ...
The Vera Cruz Tavern in Vera Cruz, Pennsylvania. Taverns in North America date back to colonial America.Colonial Americans drank a variety of distilled spirits. As the supply of distilled spirits, especially rum, increased, and their price dropped, they became the drink of choice throughout the colonies. [1]
After Michael Powell left Dedham for Boston in 1649, it left the town without a tavern keeper. [20] Fisher then opened Fisher's Tavern in what is present day Dedham Square, on Bullard Street, near "the keye where the first settlers' landed." [3] [9] [20] This public house featured the "Great Room" with a large fieldstone fireplace. [3]
Tavern keeper, livery stable operator, slave trader, slave jail proprietor Washington Robey ( c. 1799 – January 1, 1841), sometimes Washington Robie , was an American tavern keeper, livery stable operator, slave trader, and slave jail proprietor in early 19th-century Washington City, District of Columbia .
Richard "Dick" Woodward was an American tavern keeper. He was a patriot and soldier in the American Revolution , played host to the convention that adopted the Suffolk Resolves , and a leader of Dedham, Massachusetts .
Tavern keeper Daniel Peaslee (February 28, 1773 – December 3, 1827) was an American businessman, politician and judge. An early settler of Washington, Vermont , he served as chief judge of the Orange County Court despite not having been trained as a lawyer.
Joseph Hawley (c. 1603–1690), may have been born in Parwich, Derbyshire, England, [citation needed] was the first of the Hawley name to come to America in 1629. [1] [2] He settled at Stratford, Connecticut, by 1650, becoming the town's first town clerk or record keeper, tavern (ordinary) keeper and a shipbuilder.
The Mayflower Quarterly of December 2011, in an article on Plymouth-area taverns, has a paragraph on Stephen Hopkins, who kept an "ordinary" (tavern) in Plymouth on the north side of Leyden Street from the earliest days of the colony. [17] The article defines a 17th-century "ordinary" as a term for a tavern where set mealtimes and prices were ...