Identifier: oldbostontavernso00drak (find matches)
Title: Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855-1934
Subjects: Taverns (Inns) -- Massachusetts Boston Clubs -- Massachusetts Boston Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Boston, W. A. Butterfield
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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0, and in 1692 Gamaliel Rogers conveyed to DuncanMcFarland; Mary (McFarland) Perkins inherits, and JohnPerkins deeds to Joseph Maylem in 1714; John Mayleminherits in 1733, and the next owner is Elizabeth (Maylem)Bracket, wife of Anthony Bracket. In 1764 ElizabethBracket was licensed at her house in School Street, andJoshua Bracket was licensed in 1768. In 1796 AbigailBracket conveyed to John Warren, who was the owner in1798, and Henry Vose the occupier. A wooden house, threestories, thirty windows, value $6000. Crown Coffee-House, north side of State Street, thefirst house on Long wharf (site of the Fidelity Trust Co.building). Jonathan Belcher was a proprietor of LongWharf, which was extended from State Street in 1710. In1749 his son Andrew Belcher conveyed to Richard Smith The Crown Coffee-House, Smith to Robert Shellcock in1751, and the administrator of Shellcock to BenjaminBrown in 1788. In 1798 stores covered the site. In 1714Thomas Selby was licensed as an innholder at the Crown
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