”THE LACKEY TAVERN—In this connection, the following petition of James Lackey, asking the Commissioners for license to keep a tavern, may prove of some interest:

September 4th, 1818. To the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Jackson County:

The petition of the undersigned freeholders of Bloomfield township represent to your honors that we conceive a house of entertainment in Bloomfield township would be to the public’s convenience. We therefore recommend James Lackey, one of our citizens, to be a suitable person to accommodate the public. We therefore pray your honor would grant him license for that purpose.

Hugh Poor, Andrew Boggs, John Stephenson, Joel Long, Robert Ervin, George Campbell, Samuel McClure, Alexander Poor, George Corn, Moses Hale, Elisha Long, Stephen Martin, Robert G. Hanna, Martin Poor, William Scurlock, Stephen Martin, George W. Hale, Christopher Long, Peter Williams, Wm. Ware, John McNutt, John Dickerson, Joshua Perry, William J. Stephenson, James Ward, Benjamin Long.”

Reference Data:

A History of Jackson County, Ohio, by Daniel Webster Webster, 1900, page 155