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 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

                                               

Title:               Petition for Tavern Licenses  

Dates:             1799-1830

Call No.:         Col. 175         

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 Art Gallery.

           

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

Topics:

            Hotels - New Jersey - Cumberland County.

            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.