White Horse Tavern

Elisha Moore, in 1807, prayed the court to grant him license for his house, located on the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road, near the eleventh mile-stone. He says that he is "nearly three miles above Jonathan Miller's tavern (Haverford), about one- third of a mile above Bartle Bartleson's tavern, and nearly three miles below Edward Siter's and Robert Kennedy's tavern. Between the first and the second last-mentioned taverns, on the old Lancaster road, there is now two taverns, and was there perhaps for forty years prior to the turnpike road being made (1792). The traveling since has vastly increased, and is generally confined to the turnpike. And as your petitioner lives in a very eligible situation for the accommodation and convenience of travellers, and has been at a considerable expense in the erection of buildings for keeping a public-house, which he will endeavor to merit by keeping good order, if your Honours will please to grant him a recommendation to his Excellency the Governor for a license for the same." The court acted favorably on his petition, and thus was established the White Horse Tavern. In 1814, Moore was followed by Jonathan Morgan, and the latter, in 1815, gave place to William Sheldrake. However, Elisha Moore returned to the tavern in 1816, and remained there until 1827, when Joseph Miller was the landlord, to be the next year followed by Elisha Moore, who continued to have license granted to him until 1838, after which date the White Horse Tavern disappeared from the records of the county as a public-house.[bib]703[/bib]