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OLD TAVERNS OF NEW YORK

by

W. HARRISON BAYLES







Frank Allaben Genealogical Company
Forty-Second Street Building, New York

Copyright, 1915, by Frank Allaben Genealogical Company




Old Taverns of New York




Contents


                                                                      Page

  PREFACE                                                               xv

  I DUTCH TAVERNS                                                        1

    Indian Trade--First Settlement--Purchase of Manhattan
    Island--Popular Taverns in New Amsterdam--Sunday Closing
    Under Stuyvesant--Dutch Festivities

  II NEW YORK AND THE PIRATES                                           37

    The English Conquest--Horse Races--Regulations for
    Innkeepers--First Merchants' Exchange--Famous Taverns of
    the Period--Early Buccaneers and Their Relations with
    Government Officials--Efforts of the Earl of Bellomont to
    Restrain Piracy

  III THE COFFEE HOUSE                                                  65

    An Exciting Election in 1701--Popularity of the Coffee
    House--Aftermath of the Leisler Troubles--Political
    Agitation under Lord Cornbury--Trials of Nicholas Bayard
    and Roger Baker--Conferences at the Coffee House--Festivals
    under the English Rule--Official Meetings in Taverns and
    Coffee Houses

  IV THE BLACK HORSE                                                    91

    The Black Horse Tavern, Scene of Many Political Conferences
    in the Early Eighteenth Century--Rip Van Dam and Governor
    Cosby--Lewis Morris' Campaign--Zenger's Victory for Liberty
    of the Press--Old New York Inns--Privateering--The <DW64>
    Plot

  V THE MERCHANTS' COFFEE HOUSE                                        127

    The Slave Market, Later the Meal Market--The Merchants'
    Coffee House, Famous for More than Half a Century--Clubs of
    Colonial New York--The Merchants' Exchange--Charter of
    King's College, Now Columbia University--French and Indian
    War--The Assembly Balls--The Press Gang--Some Old
    Inns--Surrender of Fort Washington

  VI TAVERN SIGNS                                                      167

    Doctor Johnson on the Comforts of an Inn--Landlords of the
    Olden Time--Some Curious Tavern Signs--Intemperance in the
    Eighteenth Century--Sports and Amusements

  VII THE KING'S ARMS                                                  191

    The Crown and Thistle, Meeting Place of St. Andrew's
    Society and Later Called the King's Head--The King's Arms,
    Formerly the Exchange Coffee House and the Gentlemen's
    Coffee House--Broadway of the Eighteenth Century--The Stamp
    Act and the Non-Importation Agreement--The Liberty
    Pole--Recreation Gardens

  VIII HAMPDEN HALL                                                    227

    The Queen's Head Tavern, Where Was Organized the New York
    Chamber of Commerce--Pre-Revolutionary Excitement--Battle
    of Golden Hill--Hampden Hall, Meeting Place of the Sons of
    Liberty and Attacked by the British--List of Members of the
    Social Club, 1775--Other Clubs and Societies of the
    Period--The Moot, a Lawyers' Club and Its Charter
    Members--The Tax on Tea, Committee of Correspondence and
    Outbreak of the Revolution

  IX THE PROVINCE ARMS                                                 271

    The Continental Congress--Marinus Willett's Seizure of
    Arms--Flight of the Tories--Happenings at the Coffee
    House--The Province Arms, Resort of British Officers--Other
    Taverns--The Theatre Royal--Sports--The Refugee
    Club--Social Affairs Under the British Occupation

  X FRAUNCES' TAVERN                                                   307

    The Treaty of Peace--Celebration Dinners at Sam Fraunces'
    House and Other Taverns--Evacuation of New
    York--Washington's Farewell to His Officers, at Fraunces'
    Tavern, 1783--First New York Bank--Re-organization of
    Chamber of Commerce--Social, Philanthropic, and Learned
    Societies of the Day--The Cincinnati--The New
    Constitution--Washington's Inauguration--Sam Fraunces,
    Steward of the President

  XI THE TONTINE COFFEE HOUSE                                          351

   