Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 44240-h.htm or 44240-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44240/44240-h/44240-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44240/44240-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/oldtavernsofnewy00bayl 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 Negro 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