The
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and
Printed Ephemera
Henry
Francis du Pont
5105
Kennett Pike, Winterthur, Delaware 19735
Telephone:
302-888-4600 or 800-448-3883
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Title: Petition for Tavern Licenses
Dates: 1799-1830
Call No.:
Acc. No.: 83x60
Quantity: 1 folder
Location: 2 A 6
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The
collection contains 18 petitions made to the Court of General Quarter, Session
of the Peace in Cumberland County, New Jersey, for tavern licenses. Signed statements from freeholders and
inhabitants on each of the documents attest to the petitioner's honesty and
temperance or sobriety, that the petitioner is known to have two or more spare
feather beds, and that the individual is well provided with house room,
stabling, and provender.
ORGANIZATION
The
petitions are arranged in chronological order.
LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS
The
materials are in English.
RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS
Collection
is open to the public. Copyright
restrictions may apply.
PROVENANCE
Purchased
from the Branford Rare Books and
ACCESS POINTS
Topics:
Hotels -
Hotels - Licenses.
License system - History - 19th
century.
Cumberland County (N.J.) –
Businesses.
Licenses.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE
COLLECTION
Location:
2 A 6
Note: all accession numbers begin
with 83x60.
.1 Jonathan Lummis, Bridgeton, Feb. 10, 1799;
Lummis requests a license for the
public house previously run by Jer. Patrick; petition signed by David Leake
(chosen freeholder), Josiah Parvin[?] and Elijah Davis (commissioners of
appeal), Jonathan Smith and Levi Leake (overseers of the poor)
.2 William Stratton, Deerfield Township, Feb.
12, 1799;
Petition signed by David Leake
(chosen freeholder), Josiah Parvin[?] and Elijah Davis (commissioners of
appeal), Jonathan Smith and Levi Leake (overseers of the poor)
.3 Phebe Ladow [or Ladue], Down Tonwship,
near Dividing Creek bridge, Feb. 1801;
Petition signed by Samuel Dollass
(commissioner of appeal and freeholder), Nathaniel Love (overseer of the poor),
William Moore (freeholder, commissioner of appeal and overseer of the poor)
.4 John Welsh, Millville, Feb. 1803;
Petition signed by Robert
Smith, Isaac Wynn, William Price, Edward Price, Jeremiah Stratton, George
Browning, Cornelius Shaw, Jonathan Smith, Jesse Levans[?], Joseph Buck[?],
Thomas Banke, Aaron Patterson, Ephm. Newcomb, David Nichols, Nathan Leake, Levi
Albertson
.5 Phineas Carell, Greenwich township, Sept.
1, 1803;
Petition signed by Richard
Wood, Jr.; Howell P. Watson, Ebenezer Hall, Samuel Watson, Caleb Sheppard,
William Mulford, Jr.; Job Ware, Enos Ewing, Job Stiles, Josiah Sheppard,
William Baron, Abner Ewing, Thomas Daniel, Thomas Brown, Jr., W.B.[?] Ewing,
James Stewart, Job Bacon, James B. Hunt, Thomas Sheppard, John Dare, John
Bacon, Mark Ware
.6 Jonathan Walling, Hopewell township, Feb.
20, 1810;
Walling wishes to take
over the public house of Joseph Bacon in village of Roadstown;
Petition signed by
Hancy[?] Sheppard, Benjamin Dove, Daniel Bowen, Furman Shephard, Delany Sharp, Joseph
Bacon, William Merritt, Joseph Pane[?], Phineas Sheppard, William Shaw,
Chst.[?] Clark, John Elwell, Jacob Sailer
.7 Jesse Eldridge, Down township, Feb. 14,
1810; [see also .9 below]
Petition signed by John
Robbins, Samuel Mull, Gideon Heaton, Asa Douglass, Jeremiah Blizard, Silas
Blizard, Jonathan Hand, William Stratton, Jehu Parsons, Ogden Daniels,
Nathaniel Lore, Ethan Lore, Jonathan Lowell, Jr.; David Heaton, William Moore,
Jeremiah Russel, Aaron Conrow; Ichabod Compton, George Elkinton, James Compton,
James G. Atkinson, John Chattin, Jacob Haley, John Haley, Gilbert Compton,
Ephraim Lowe, Silvanus Tubman, Just. Deagstem[?], Major Henderson
.13 William McCormick, Millville, Feb. 20,
1810;
Petition signed by
Thomas Smith, James M. Long [or McClong?], Robert Jorden, Jeremiah Foster,
Nathaniel Foster, Elias Wilson, Fithian Stratton, Jr,; Nathan Leake, Richard
Campbell, Jesse Appleton, [illegible] Stratton, Ephraim Foster
.8 Samuel Shull, Deerfield township, Feb.
term, 1811;
Petition signed by
Dayton Riley, Abel Corson, Daniel Louder, Jacob Taylor, John Reeves, Garrison
Maul, John G. Maul, Charles Woodruff, David Dare, James Hood, William Potter,
John Buck, Jeremiah Buck, John Johnson, Nathan L. Stratton, Abijah Harris,
David O. Garrison, Saml. Saley[?]
.9 Jesse Eldridge, Down township, May 18, 1811;
[see also .7 above]
Petition signed by Ethan
Lore, Jehu Parsons, Major Henderson, George Elkinton, James G. Atkinson, Joseph
Wever, Jacob Haley, John Haley, Amos Pepper, Ichabod Lore, Robert Lake, Levi
Bright, Jonathan Hand, Asa Douglass, Nathaniel Lore, John Lore, William Mason,
Gideon Heaton, Aaron Conrow; Gilbert Compton, Just. Deagstem[?],John Chattin,
.10 Robert Bell, Dorchester, Nov. 27, 1813;
Petition signed by
Thomas Jones, Samuel Peterson, Richard Campbell, Roger Wales, William
Lowery[?], George Gale, Levi Stevens, William Burnett, Maris Taylor, Jno.
Dunham, Jonathan Dallas, John Young, Joshua Brich[?], Lewis Mulford, Jr.
.11 Ephraim Gibbon, Roadstown, Hopewell
township, May 30, 1814;
Petition signed by
freeholders Uriah Bacon, William Shaw, Jacob Elwell, Chas.[?] Clark, James
Johnston, Henry Dowdrey[?], Benjamin Dare, Uriah Gilman, William Mason, John
Elwell, Nathan Sheppard, Dan Simkins, John Shriner, Jacob M. Welsh, Ephraim
Bishop, Moses Veal; other names: G. Clark and sureties Andrew Miller and Able
Bacon, and another
.12 James Miller, Millville, November, last
Tuesday, 1817;
Petition signed by
Joseph Hollinshead, Charles Garrison, Mark Garton, Robert Jordin[?], William
Johnston, Daniel Brandriff, Zachariah Ireland, Isaac Newcomb, Mark Bowen,
Nathan Leake, David [illegible], John Shelden [signed by his mark], Isaiah
Dunlap, Richard Miller
.13
– see year 1810
.14 Richard Forman, Beaver Dam, Deerfield township, Sept. 29, 1818;
Petition signed by Ephr. Holmes, Mark Garton, Isaac Newcomb, Foster[?] Stratton, David Rude[?], John Carns, George Sands, Philip Dare, John Buck, John Johnston, Norton Harris, William Potter, Jeremiah Buck, Thomas Woodruff, William B. Strratton[?], Benjamin Dare
.15 Lewis Hoyt, Fairton, Nov. 29, 1820;
Petition signed by
George Earl, Theophilus E. Harris, John Trenchard, Jr.; Silas Smith, William Westcott,
M. Burt, James Earl, William Shephard, Thomas Harris, Aaron Seeley, Josiah
Woodruff, Mathias Burch
.16 Edmund Davis, Roadstown, Hopewell
township, Feb. 10 1823;
Petition signed by
Benjamin Dare, Phineas Sheppard, James Brooks, Uriah Gilman, Levi B. Davis,
Henry Mulford, Richard Barker, William Sheppard, Thomas Sheppard, Charles
Clark, Mason Mulford, David Fithian, Philip Souder, Sr.
.17
Edmund Davis, Deerfield township,
Feb. 16,, 1830; this is for a renewal of his license as he already keeps a
tavern;
Petition signed by H. R.
Marseilles, Jonathan Fithian, William Parvin, Nathaniel Coombs, Daniel Elmer,
Samuel Seeley, Robert S. Buck, Henry Sheppard, James B. Potter, Stephen
Balkam[?], William Bevan, John Johnston, Lucius Q. C. Elmer, G. Maul
.18 John Louder, Greenwich township, February
term, 1830;
Petition signed by
Charles Bacon, Jr.; John Miller, Moses Sheppard, Jonathan Brown, Jacob Harris,
John Harding, Gabriel D. Hall, Richard W. Bacon, James Dare, Charles Bacon,
Jr.; Enoch Fithian, Zachariah Ritter[?], W.B.[?] Ewing, Joseph Tomlinson, Job
Stiles [although the signature looks like Slites], Charles Shute, Charles B.
Fithian, Ephraim Bacon, Ebenezer Harmer[?], John S. Bacon.