was: “Abraham Van Steenwyck
to Anthony Van Fees, a lot
g| thirty feet front by one hundred
| and ten feet deep, for nine dollars

  
 

 

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JS and sixty cents.”
Ys ee An edict was issued forbidding

Ail r || householders to harbor any trav-

ig |eler for more than one meal or a
| sea single night’s lodging without
A) first notifying the Governor.

y The growth‘of the town and the
B54| largely increasing number of trav-
| elers rendered this an inconveni-
ence and made the establishment
H ESI of a public house a necessity.

A tavern was accordingly built
and Philip Gerritson appointed
mine host. In after times many
jj a traveler and trader from afar—
Virginia, New England, or from

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