Quebec's Respectable Taverns

Canadian Tavern

"The only taverns or hotels in Quebec that are really respectable, are the Union Hotel on the Parade near the Govenor's chateau, and Sturch's in John-street. The Union Hotel, formerly kept by a half-pay officer of the name of Holmes, now proprietor of Hamilton's Tavern at Montreal...". (Source published in 1816)

Fraunces Tavern Long Room

James Fenimore Cooper,  By Mary Elizabeth Phillips:

The First Fatal (American) Duel

NOTED AMERICAN DUELS

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"Here Lyes Interred The Body of Mr. Benjamin Woodbridge, Son of the Honourable Dudley Woodbridge, Esq., Who Dec'd July ye 3d, 1728, In ye 20th Year of His Age."

Amos Lay In Quebec

Lower Canada, declarations of aliens : H-1154:

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11 July 1794

Quebec

...the subscriber by profession a farmer residing at

West Haven County of Rutland

Sate of Vermont

arrived in this City yesterday, and lodges at

Pearce Ryan's Tavern Keeper 

comes in search of Crown Lands

*Amos Lay

Acknowledged before Wm. Lindsay

This Amos Lay who was a mapmaker and surveyor? *The Obscure Amos Lay: An Early Nineteenth-Century  American Cartographer, by David Y. Allen

Near The National Road In Pennsylvania

Present-Day Nature In The Vicinity Of Washington, Pennsylvania

"William Darby, Esq., in the year 1845, and then in the 71st year of his age, in speaking of Bassettown (now Washington), said: In the fall of 1782, the site where Washington now stands was a vast thicket of black and red hawthorn, wild plums, hazel bushes, shrub oaks, and briers; often I have picked hazel-nuts where the court-house now stands." (Page 124)

Taverns Lined The National Road. (From Signage At Fort Necessity NPS)

"...we may now state that the borough of Washington is situated near the centre of Washington County, on the National road...".

Leased As A Tavern

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McCormick's Tavern

From The making of a township...Fairmount Township, Grant County, Indiana:

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McCormick's Tavern on the old State Road

See more about taverns in general here.

Dame Pye Was Robbed

From Stagecoach And Tavern Days:

"Our heroine, Dame Pye, certainly deserved a better and braver husband, and it is pleasant to know that she outlived Pye and found, if not a more courageous mate, certainly a very fine young one—her bar-keeper*, forty years younger than herself."  *William Nutt

The story of Dame Pye was found in Stagecoach And Tavern Days came from "...the book...The Robber, or Pye and The Highwayman..." (the "Pye" book)."

My synopsis:

A highwayman (identified as Robert Johnson) went to the tavern of John Pye on the West Troy road [Watervliet Turnpike between Troy and Albany, New York] and broke in. When the keys to the till were refused to the robber, a shootout ensued. A trail of blood was followed and icy waters were plunged into while on his spectacular horse. Captain William B. Winne, after hand-to-hand combat with the bad guy, captured the injured highwayman, and put him in jail.

Another quote:

"The highwayman escaped the tree, for he died in jail. There is reason to believe he was a Southerner of good birth. The horse was so widely described and exploited that his story reached a Virginia gentleman, his real owner, from whom he had been stolen. The sagacious animal had been trained to follow a peculiar whistle, and to jump at anything. The gentleman proved his ownership and took the splendid animal-hero home."


Below is how the "Pye" book is shown in the Earl Gregg Swem Library catalog:

The robber, or, The narrative of Pye and the highwayman : being a detailed and particular account of an attempted robbery of the inn of John Pye, between the cities of Albany and Troy in 1808, and of the outlaw's final capture and end : as related by Mrs. Pye herself and others, who were intimately acquainted with the whole tragical affair : together with, a history of the old men of the mountain, or, the gold hunters of Joes Hills:

Main Author: Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.
Published: Albany [N.Y.] : Printed by Stone and Munsell, 1836
Subjects: Pye, John.
Nutt, Elizabeth Pye, > 1745 or 6-1843.
Brigands and robbers > New York (State) > Biography.
Taverns (Inns) > New York (State)

Evacuation Day

A description of the First Evacuation Day celebration:

Writers say Washington made his headquarters there [Fraunces Tavern] and that the building was illuminated in the evening.  On this occasion the memorable thirteen toasts were drunk, the first being to "The United States of America" and the last "May the Remembrance of THIS DAY be a Lesson to Princes;" and "The New York Gazette" of November 26, 1783, gives a full account of the parade and ceremonies of the day before and the public dinner given to the Commander-in-Chief at Fraunces Tavern in the evening.  The bill as follows:

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For the celebration of Evacuation Day, November 25, 1813, the record states that:

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"The Independent Veteran Corps of Artillery assembled at the Arsenal in Elm Street in the morning, and, after performing the duties of the Day, adjourned to Kent's Hotel (now Fraunce's Tavern) and partook of a dinner with usual toasts."