Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Innkeeper
It appears that Thomas became an innkeeper. Benjamin R. Boggs' collection Inns and Taverns of Old Phildelphia, chapter 20, cites an article from the Philadelphia Gazette of April 18, 1745: "Thomas Woolley late of Marple in Chester County is this day moved into the City of Philadelphia to the sign of the White Horse in Elbow Lane..., with an intent to keep a public House of Entertainment, he having obtained License for this purpose. It being one of the most convenient houses for the Market people, as well as Travellors in the said city, having good convenient stabling..."
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Cool! Now being an innkeeper did that just mean he ran the a little hotel or did he have a tavern he ran along with that?
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