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Larason’s Tavern

March 25, 2023 By Marfy Goodspeed in Amwell Twp, Larison, Raritan Twp Tags: land titles, taverns

For some time, I have been writing articles about the early taverns in Hunterdon County, knowing how important they were to both travelers on Hunterdon’s earliest roads and the communities that built up around them. One of the taverns on my to-do list was Larason’s Tavern on the Old York Road north of Ringoes. Fortunately, Dave Harding, administrator of the Hunterdon County Historical Society, did the job for me. His history of the tavern appeared in the most recent issue of the Hunterdon Historical Record (vol. 59, no.1), the Historical Society’s regular newsletter.

With Dave’s permission, I am reprinting the article here along with some footnotes and additional information at the end. This has been a real treat for us both.

Pittstown Inn, part 3

November 29, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Emery, Hunt, Pittstown Tags: taverns

Part Two of my history of the Pittstown Inn ended with the death of Moore Furman in 1808. Part three will describe the Inn’s 19th century owners and its innkeepers—quite often not the same people.

Pittstown Inn, part two

October 13, 2022 By Marfy Goodspeed in Alexandria Twp, Hunterdon, Pittstown Tags: architecture, taverns

I ended part one of the Pittstown Inn when the Revolution came to an end. The Treaty of Paris was finally signed on September 3, 1783, thanks to the efforts of America’s representative at the negotiations, Benjamin Franklin.

The next stage in the history of the Pittstown tavern should cover the years from 1783 to 1800, when the tavern’s owner, Moore Furman, began thinking about replacing the old tavern house with a new one.

The question becomes—what was going on with the tavern between those years? Much to my dismay, I can say next to nothing about what was going on with the tavern. Clearly, there were tavernkeepers at work there while the owner, Furman, had returned to his home in Trenton.