Apply for License to Keep an Inn
03.25.1854 J
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscriber
intends to apply to the Court of Quarter
Sessions of Chester county, for License to keep an Inn or
tavern in the house now occupied by him at Valley Forge,
Schuylkill township.
March 25, 1854. Barnard [Bernard] Hoy
The following is his recommendation :
We the undersigned citizens of the township
of Schuylkill, Chester county, aforesaid, being personally
and well acquainted with Barnard Hoy, the above named
petitioner, and also having a knowledge of the house for
which the license is prayed, do certify that saide Inn or
tavern is necessary to accommodate the public, and
entertain strangers and travellers, and that he is a person of
good repute for honesty and temperance, and that he is
well provided with house room and conveniences for the
accommodation of strangers and travellers.
Benjamin Steward, Bernnrd [Bernard] Bradley, Samuel R. Buckwalter,
Amos Rapp, Wm. A. Miller,
James Higgans, John Rapp, Ezekiel Bowen,
James McIntyre, A.Y. Beqner, Thomas R. H_________ [balance
of article missing].
Note: To read a brief history of Bernard Hoy and his family, see this 1893 Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania.
See also this 1904 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, by Gilbert Cope, Hoy book entry".
Found by Herb Fry. Digitized by Heidi Sproat 11/05/2022.
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