09.26.97 Regarding 18th century taverns and inns: I've been looking over some material from Brunswick Town, North Carolina, for my M.A. thesis, and based on what I've seen, there were only two such establishments known in the town. The first is the Public House and Tailor Shop, which deeds state was inn (prior to becoming a tailor shop, which is not mentioned in the deeds). The second is Nath Moore's Front, a residential structure which was utilizing its basement as an ordinary (stated in deeds). Both structures date from the early 1730s until ca. 1776. The most common reference for a basic discussion of the Public House and Nath Moore's Front is found in Stanley South's Method and Theory in Historical Archaeology (1977). There are also short excavation reports on each structure, but essentially is repetitious of what Method and Theory discusses. A reanalysis of Nath Moore's Front was conducted fairly recently by Anna Gray in her 1989 William and Mary M.A. thesis, "Be Ye Friend or Foe? An Analysis of Two 18th Century North Carolina Sites." Cheers, Tom Beaman [log in to unmask]