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271 The Continental Congress—Marinus Willett’s Seizure of Arms—Flight of the Tories—Happenings at the Coffee House—The Province Arms, Resort of British Officers—Other Taverns—The Theatre Royal—Sports—The Refugee Club—Social Affairs Under the British Occupation   X FRAUNCES’ TAVERN 307 The Treaty of Peace—Celebration Dinners at Sam Fraunces’ House and Other Taverns—Evacuation of New York—Washington’s Farewell to His Officers, at Fraunces’ Tavern, 1783—First New York Bank—Re-organization of Chamber of Commerce—Social, Philanthropic, and Learned Societies of the Day—The Cincinnati—The New Constitution—Washington’s Inauguration—Sam Fraunces, Steward of the President   XI THE TONTINE COFFEE HOUSE 351 The Tammany Society—Tontine Coffee House Founded by Prominent New York Merchants—New York Stock Exchange in the Tontine—Marriner’s Tavern, Later Called the Roger Morris House and the Jumel Mansion—The Tammany Wigwam—Brillât-Savarin in New York   XII THE CITY HOTEL 385 Club Life After the Revolution—The City Hotel and the Assembly Balls—Musical Societies—Second Hudson Centennial, 1809—St. Andrew’s Society Dinners and Other Feasts—Tea Gardens—The Embargo of 1807—Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen—New England Society—Political Associations—Tammany Hall—The Battery—The Ugly Club   XIII THE SHAKESPEARE TAVERN 417 The War of 1812—Dinner to Naval Victors at the City Hotel—Dinners to Captain Lawrence, General Harrison, Commodores Bainbridge and Perry—News of Peace—The Shakespeare Tavern, a Musical and Literary Centre—Cradle of the Seventh Regiment—A New York Inn Comparable to London’s “Mermaid Tavern” and “Turk’s Head”—Visits of Monroe and Jackson—The Erie Canal—First New York Savings Bank—The Price-Wilson Duel   XIV ROAD HOUSES 445 Prejudice Against Dancing—Balls—Debates and Lectures—The City Hotel—Niblo’s Garden—Road Houses—Trotting Matches—Upper Third Avenue—Suburban Drives and Taverns—Lafayette’s Visit—Clubs—End of City Hotel—Era of Hotels   INDEX 481

 

 

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Illustrations

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“Beer Was the Dutchman’s Drink”	5
The City Tavern from the Justin Dancker’s View, 1650	15
The White Horse Tavern	18
The Damen House	19
Water Gate, Foot of Wall Street	24
“They Had Discovered the Toothsome Terrapin”	31
“The Man of the Knight of St. George”	38
The Earl of Bellomont	56
“As Genuine Pirates as Ever Sailed the Sea”	57
Captain Tew	59
The Bayard Punch Bowl	74
Viscount Cornbury	78
Old Tankard	80
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