Tavern Petition of Moses MUSGRAVE, 1745; Chester County, Pennsylvania

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Moses Musgraves
Pet’n for a Road
Rejected
Nov. 1745
Tavern

To the Worshipfull John Crosby Esq., his associates Justices of the Court of 
Quarter Sessions now Sitting at Chester for the County of Chester

The Petition of Moses Musgrave Late an Inhabitant of the Borough of Lancaster 
in the County of Lancaster but now a Residente in Fallowfield Township in the 
said County of Chester Most Humbly Showeth

That your Petitioner having Purchased a Plantation of James Cochran Situate 
in the aforementioned township & which your pet’r. Conceives is well situated 
to keep a publick house or house of Entertainment Many Strangers & passengers 
Calling that Way

That your Petitioner having been formerly favoured with a Lycence from his 
Honour the Governour to keep a Publick house in the Borough of Lancaster & 
under which Station of Life having behaved himself well according to the Law 
of this Province made Relating to Innkeepers and Tavernors, as by the following 
Certificate Can & May Appear

Your Pet’r. therefore most humbly prays your Worships will be pleased to 
Recommend him to his honour the Governour in order that he may keep a Publick 
house or house of Entertainment in the said Township of Fallowfield upon the 
Great Road Leading from Conastogo to Christiana Landings & near to Ellis Lewis 
Jr. & his mill
26th Nov. 1745                And your pet’r as in duty bound will Ever pray etc.
                                                                   Moses Musgrave

We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Borough of Lancaster afores’d do ? Certify 
that We have well known & been acquainted with the abovenamed Moses Musgrave & 
that During the time of his Living among us he always kept a good, & orderly house 
of Entertainment and in every other respect behaved as an Honest Man and a good neighbour.

Rob’t Stockton           Jon Chamsloir [?]         James Moore
Jonas Chamberlin         William Farr              Thomas [?]               Tho. Cookson
Benjamin Miller          Calvin Cooper             Ellis Lewis Jun’r        Edw. Smout [?]
                         Arron Willosve [?]        William Morror [?]       Peter Worrall
                                                   Chearles Morror
                                                   Aron Musgrave            George Gibson Edmund Neworth
                                                   Rob’t Lewis              Samuel Williams







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