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Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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brawls and fighting with fists,knives, cutlasses, and pikes, sometimes with fatal re-sults. Thus, in July, 1648, Abraham Pietersens tav-ern was closed by the authorities on account of aman named Gerrit Clomp having been killed there.When closing-time arrived, and the tap-rooms dis-gorged their drunken patrons, the streets were oftenthe scenes of riotous conduct, such as breaking windowsand lamps, breaking into inoffensive citizens houses todemand drink, and assaulting anybody who objectedto their violence. Proceedings against night-brawlersfrequently occur in the Court Records. Even in the better class of taverns quarrels, assaults,and stabbing affrays were not uncommon among theclass of citizens who patronized them, — sea-captains,the Companys officers and servants, and burghers who,except when under the influence of liquor, were usuallypeacefully inclined. The best tavern in the city wasnot exempt from such scenes, as we have seen. In1647, ^ customer named Symon Root, who lost his
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<a rel="nofollow"> D TAVERNS AND EXCISE LAWS 289 right ear in a broil at the great Tavern, appHed tothe Council, and received a certificate reciting the fact.This was necessary when he traveled abroad, where theloss might have been attributed to a crime, committedhere or elsewhere, the punishment of which was earcropping or boring. Many examples might be given of the excesses com-mitted by the frequenters of taverns; but the follow-ing will suffice. On Aug. 8, 1644, Peter Wolphersensued three soldiers for cutting his wainscot with theircutlasses. On pleading guilty, two of them w^ere sen-tenced to ride the Wooden Horse for three hours;and the third, it being his second offense, had to standthree hours under the gallows, with a cutlass in hishand. In 1660, Frans Janzen and Abel Hardenbroeckwere fined twenty guilders each because they at nightand at unseasonable hours in company with some sol-diers created an uproar and great insolence in the streetby breaking windows. Typical tavern in

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