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Crown Coffee-House. First house on Long Wharf. Thomas Selby kept it 1718-24; Widow Anna Swords, 1749; then the property of Governor Belcher; Belcher sold to Richard Smith, innholder, who in 1751 sold to Robert Sherlock. (Site of Fidelity Trust Building.) </bɾ> <bɾ> 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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de-scribed as being at the head of Long Wharf. Castle Tavern, afterward the George Tavern. North-east by Wings Lane (Elm Street), front or southeast byDock Square. For an account of Hudsons marital troubles,see Winthrops New England, II. 249. Another house ofthe same name is mentioned in 1675 and 1693. A stillearlier name was the Blew Bell, 1673. It was inMackerel Lane (Kilby Street), corner of Liberty Square. Coles Inn. See the referred-to deed in Proc. Am. Ant.Soc, VII. p. 51. For the episode of Lord Leigh consultOld Landmarks of Boston, p. 109. Cromwells Head, by Anthony Brackett, 1760; by hiswidow, 1764-68; later by Joshua Brackett. A two-storywooden house advertised to be sold, 1802. Crown Coffee-House. First house on Long Wharf.Thomas Selby kept it 1718-24; Widow Anna Swords,1749; then the property of Governor Belcher; Belcher soldto Richard Smith, innholder, who in 1751 sold to EobertSherlock. Crown Tavern. Widow Days, head of Clarks Wharf;rendezvous for privateersmen in 1745.
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THE GROWN COFFEE HOUSE (Site of Fidelity Trust Building) BOSTON TAVERNS TO THE YEAR 1800. 63 Cross Tavern, corner of Cross and Ann Streets, 1732; Samuel Mattocks advertises, 1729, two young bears very-tame for sale at the Sign of the Cross. Cross Street takes its name from the tavern. Perhaps the same asthe Red Cross, in Ann Street, mentioned in 1746, andthen kept by John Osborn. Men who had enlisted forthe Canada expedition were ordered to report there. Dog and Pot, at the head of Bartletts Wharf in Ann(North) Street, or, as then described, Fish Street. Bart-letts Wharf was in 1722 next northeast of Lees shipyard. Concert Hall was not at first a public house, but wasbuilt for, and mostly used as, a place for giving musicalentertainments, balls, parties, etc., though refreshmentswere probably served in it by the lessee. A concert ofmusick was advertised to be given there as early as 1755.(See Landmarks of Boston.) Thomas Turner had a danc-ing and fencing academy there in 1776. As has be

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