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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

    The Tammany Society--Tontine Coffee House Founded by
    Prominent New York Merchants--New York Stock Exchange in
    the Tontine--Marriner's Tavern, Later Called the Roger
    Morris House and the Jumel Mansion--The Tammany
    Wigwam--Brillat-Savarin in New York

  XII THE CITY HOTEL                                                   385

    Club Life After the Revolution--The City Hotel and the
    Assembly Balls--Musical Societies--Second Hudson
    Centennial, 1809--St. Andrew's Society Dinners and Other
    Feasts--Tea Gardens--The Embargo of 1807--Society of
    Mechanics and Tradesmen--New England Society--Political
    Associations--Tammany Hall--The Battery--The Ugly Club

  XIII THE SHAKESPEARE TAVERN                                          417

    The War of 1812--Dinner to Naval Victors at the City
    Hotel--Dinners to Captain Lawrence, General Harrison,
    Commodores Bainbridge and Perry--News of Peace--The
    Shakespeare Tavern, a Musical and Literary Centre--Cradle
    of the Seventh Regiment--A New York Inn Comparable to
    London's "Mermaid Tavern" and "Turk's Head"--Visits of
    Monroe and Jackson--The Erie Canal--First New York Savings
    Bank--The Price-Wilson Duel

  XIV ROAD HOUSES                                                      445

    Prejudice Against Dancing--Balls--Debates and Lectures--The
    City Hotel--Niblo's Garden--Road Houses--Trotting
    Matches--Upper Third Avenue--Suburban Drives and
    Taverns--Lafayette's Visit--Clubs--End of City Hotel--Era
    of Hotels

  INDEX                                                                481




Illustrations


                                                                      Page

  "Beer Was the Dutchman's Drink"                                        5

  The City Tavern from the Justin Dancker's View, 1650                  15

  The White Horse Tavern                                                18

  The Damen House                                                       19

  Water Gate, Foot of Wall Street                                       24

  "They Had Discovered the Toothsome Terrapin"                          31

  "The Man of the Knight of St. George"                                 38

  The Earl of Bellomont                                                 56

  "As Genuine Pirates as Ever Sailed the Sea"                           57

  Captain Tew                                                           59

  The Bayard Punch Bowl                                                 74

  Viscount Cornbury                                                     78

  Old Tankard                                                           80

  The Black Horse Tavern                                                90

  Rip Van Dam                                                           93

  Governor Cosby                                                        94

  Lewis Morris                                                          95

  Fac-Simile News Item from the New York Weekly Journal, November
  5, 1733                                                               99

  Andrew Hamilton                                                      102

  The Ball at the Black Horse                                          107

  "Which Were All Drank in Bumpers"                                    109

  "The Violin and Flute, by 'Private Hands'"                           111

  House at 122 William Street                                          117

  The Royal Exchange                                                   136

  Sir Danvers Osborne, Governor of New York                            139

  "The Drumbeat Was Constantly Heard in the Streets"                   145

  Sir Charles Hardy, Governor of New York                              147

  Colonel Peter Schuyler                                               150

  The Press Gang                                                       153

  The Bull's Head Tavern                                               157

  The Roger Morris House                                               160

  The Blue Bell Tavern                                                 161

  The Old Time Landlord                                                169

  "Hard Drinking Prevailed"                                            171

  Good Old Madeira                                                     173

  A Racing Trophy                                                      180

  Bull Baiting, From an Old Advertisement                              184

  The Bowling Green, From Lyne's Map                                   186

  William Alexander, Earl of Stirling                                  192

  House Built by Cornelis Steenwyck                                    197

  The De Lancey House                                                  201

  Liberty Boys                                                         214

  At Ranelagh                                                          220

  Corner of Broadway and Murray Street, 1816                           235

  Captain A. McDougall                                                 241

  Merchants' Coffee House and Coffee House Slip                        254

  Marinus Willett Stopping the Transfer of Arms                        274

  Baroness De Riedesel                                                 298

  In the Coffee House                                                  318

  "Gambling With Cards Was Pretty General"                             339

  Simmons' Tavern                                                      342

  Fac-Simile Receipt of Sam Fraunces, as Washington's Steward          343

  The Bowery Theatre                                                   348

  Tontine Coffee House                                                 356

  Old Sleigh                                                           365

  The City Hotel                                                       373

  Martling's Tavern                                                    376

  Belvedere Club House                                                 382

  Fac-Simile Bill of the City Hotel, 1807                              384

  Anthelme Brillat-Savarin                                             387

  White Conduit House                                                  398

  Robert R. Livingston                                                 404

  Washington Hall                                                      409

  Tammany Hall                                                         411

  Fraunces' Tavern About 1830                                          412

  The Great Naval Dinner at the City Hotel, December 29, 1812          416

  Commodore Stephen Decatur                                            418

  Commodore Isaac Hull                                                 420

  Captain James Lawrence                                               421

  The Shakespeare Tavern                                               429

  "As Choice Spirits as Ever Supped at the Turk's Head"                431

  De Witt Clinton                                                      438

  Contoit's Garden                                                     454

  Niblo's Garden                                                       457

  Reynolds' Beer House                                                 459

  Cato's House                                                         461

  The Old Hazzard House                                                