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 Oer 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