Thanks for the offer Jane but Bound Brook is in Northern NJ, Somerset Co, I believe. Regards, Joan In a message dated 9/27/03 1:16:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I have a 1926 book written by Elise Lathrop titled "Early American Inns and Taverns" . Different chapters cover different states and their taverns, and there are even some photographs. On page 129 she writes "The old village of Bound Brook was on the pre-Revolutionary stage route, and an old military maps names two taverns here: Tunison's, and the Bull's Head, near the present town of Somerville. William Kelley's At the Sign of the Buck, Bound Brook, was advertised in the New York Gazette and Mercury in November, 1772.... Posiah Stanbury had a tavern in Bound Brook, and here, too, was the Black Horse, kept by a man who told one guest that he was "not only an innkeeper, but also weaver, shoemaker, farmer, farrier, gardener, barber, leach and doctor, and when I cannot help myself, a soldier." Mrs. Lathrop lists about 200 taverns in New Jersey by location. This is the only Black Horse she has listed in NJ. I have no idea where Bound Brook is......it may not be in Salem County, and your Black Horse Tavern may be another place entirely. I am happy to do lookups in this book if anyone else wants to know about taverns in NJ. Jane ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records

Joan, There is no Black Horse listed in the Place Names section of GCHS Publications Special No. 1 ( Bible Records, Place Names etc) but I found one in Woolwich Twp, Gloucester county, p. 148, in Old Inns and Taverns in West Jersey by Charles S. Boyer. "Black Horse Tavern in Woolwich Township was established by William Gosling shortly after 1800 and continued by him until 1840. The original tavern burned down in 1822 and was immediately rebuilt. The name Black Horse was a common one, I see it used also in Trenton and Burlington. BTW, upon cross checking the index for Lacey, I found the following entry on p. 63: Pemberton ( New Mills) Pemberton, located on the Rancocas Creek, about six miles east of Mount Holly, is one of the older settlements in Burlington County. It was originally called Hampton-Hanover, because the village proper was partly in Northampton Township and partly in Hanover Township, the Rancocas Creek being the dividing line. When a gristmill was built in the village, in 1752, to replace an older one about a half a mile to the northeast, the place was called New Mills, a name which it retained until 1826, when it was changed to Pemberton after James Pemberton, its largest landowner. In 1801, post offices were established at Burlington, Mount Holly and New Mills, only being exceeded , in point of time by Tuckerton and Atsion. The first Methodist Episcopal Church building erected in West Jersey was at New Mills, the original building there being erected in 1775. As early as 1818, John N. Offley, had a factory in New Mills where cut-nails and brads were made. Among the Revolutionary heroes of the village was General John Lacey, the Quaker General and hero of the Battle of Crooked Billet ( Pennsylvania)." Boyer goes on to list several taverns of that place, then follows with those in Columbus, which was earlier called Black Horse. Val