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Identifier: oldbostontaverns00dra (find matches)
Title: Old Boston taverns and tavern clubs
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 Watkins, Walter Kendall, 1855- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Bars (Drinking establishments) Clubx
Publisher: Boston, W. A. Butterfield
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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isrecorded to Stoughton. Stoughton died in 1701, and thisestate fell to his granddaughter Mehitable, wife of Capt.Thomas Cooper. She later married Peter Sargent andSimeon Stoddard. In 1743 her son Rev. William Cooperconveys the brick dwelling called the Green Dragon Tavernto Dr. William Douglass. On the division of the estate ofDouglass this fell to his sister Catherine Kerr, who in1765 deeds to St. Andrews Lodge of Free Masons. In 1798it is described as a brick dwelling, three stories, thirty-ninewindows, with stable, value $3000. In 1714 WilliamPatten, late of Charlestown, petitions to sell strong drinkas an innholder at the Green Dragon in the room ofRichard Pullen, who hath quitted his license there. Gutteridg-e Coffee-House, north side of State Street,between Washington and Exchange streets. Robert Gut-teridge was a tenant of Hezekiah Usher in 1688, and waslicensed in 1691. In 1718 Mary Gutteridge petitions forthe renewal of her late husbands license to keep a publiccoffee-house.
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EXCHANGE COFFEE-HOUSE, 1848From State Street, looking south down Congress Square LIST OF TAVERNS AND TAVERN OWNERS. Ill Half Moon, southwest side of Portland Street. HenryPease was the owner of the land in the Book of Possessions.He conveys to Thomas Matson in 1648, and Joshua Matsonto Edward Cricke in 1685. In 1705 his widow DeborahCricke conveys to Thomas Gwin house commonly called The Half Moon. In 1713 Gwin sells to William Clarke.The children of Sarah (Clarke) Kilby inherit and deed toJohn Bradford in 1760. His heirs were owners in 1798.A brick house, two stories, thirty-nine windows, value$4000. Hancock, Corn Court. This property was acquired byJohn Kendric, who sells to Eobert Breck in 1652-53. Laterowners, Thomas Watkins 1653, James Green 1659, SamuelGreen 1712, Thomas Bromfield 1760, Joseph Jackson 1763.Jackson deeds to Morris Keefe in 1779, whose daughterMary, wife of John Duggan, inherits in 1795. In 1798 itwas a wooden house, two stories, twelve windows, value$1200. Hatch,

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