Taverns and drinking in early America / Sharon V. Salinger Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 Introduction 1 1 Dutch and English Origins: For the "receiving and refreshment of travaillers and strangers" 8 2 Inside the Tavern: "Knots of Men Rightly Sorted" 48 3 Preventing Drunkenness and Keeping Good Order in the Seventeenth Century: "A Herd of Planters on the ground / O'ver-whelmed with Punch, dead drunk we found" 83 4 Eighteenth-Century Legislation and Prosecution: "Lest a Flood of Rum do Overwhelm all good Order among us" 121 5 Licensing Criteria and Law in the Eighteenth Century: "Sobriety, honesty and discretion in the ... masters of such houses" 151 6 Too Many Taverns?: "Little better than Nurseries of Vice and Debauchery" 182 7 The Tavern Degenerate: "Rendezvous of the very Dreggs of the People" 210 Conclusion 241 Notes 247 Index 305 xi, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm 0801868785 (hc : alk. paper)