Taverns and drinking in early America

Dutch and English origins : for the "Receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers"

Inside the tavern : "Knots ofmen rightly sorted"

Preventing drunkenness and keeping good order in the seventeenth century : "A herd of planters on the ground/O'er-whelmed with Punch, dead drunk we found"

Eighteenth-century legislation and prosecution : "Lest a flood of rum do overwhelm all good order among us"

Licensing criteria and law in the eighteenth century : "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the ... masters of such houses"

Too many taverns? : "Little better than nurseries of vice and debauchery"

The tavern degenerate : "Rendezvous of the very dreggs of the people."