History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . umberof years. Wm. Watts commenced keeping it soon after selling theQueen to Judge Ross, 1824, and left it in November, 1826. He wasthen the owner, and may have erected the first building. His salewas held October, 1826, and, at it, was sold a pair of beautiful creambays, known as the Lafayette horses, quite a fad after the Generalsvisit here, 1824, and were two of the six that drew the distinguishedFrenchman through the streets of Philadelphia. William Field suc-ceeded Watts November 4
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . umberof years. Wm. Watts commenced keeping it soon after selling theQueen to Judge Ross, 1824, and left it in November, 1826. He wasthen the owner, and may have erected the first building. His salewas held October, 1826, and, at it, was sold a pair of beautiful creambays, known as the Lafayette horses, quite a fad after the Generalsvisit here, 1824, and were two of the six that drew the distinguishedFrenchman through the streets of Philadelphia. William Field suc-ceeded Watts November 4, 1826; Charles Morris kept the house,1830 and Field was there again, 1832. In October of that year Fieldmarried Eliza Gordon for his second wife. Watts was still the ownerof the Court Inn, in the spring of 1832, when William T. Rogers, ashis agent, offered it for sale. The house was robbed, while Field oc-cupied it, the night of April 15, 1830, and, among the articles stolenwere a dozen silver spoons marked with the initial D. belong-ing to his first wife. Here there is a break in the line of landlords. < Z O WX DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 137 and the Quarter Sessions records do not help us out. In this old innwas born Joseph H. Blackfan, many years Superintendent of ForeignMails, whose father, Crispin Blackfan, once kept the house, and wasProthonotary. John Weikel was the landlord 1842, and George , 1844. The latter advertised his removal in the Intelligencerof June 26, as follows: George H. Wyker, late from the Ladies, GentlemensFarmers and ordinary Travelers House of entertainment, two milesabove the Willow Grove, on the Easton and Philadelphia State Road,begs leave to inform his friends, (if he be so fortunate as to have any)the rich as well as the poor, that he has absquatulated from the oldstand, and has squatted down at Doylestown, at the Court Inn,the original Stage House Hotel, where he will accommodate all whomay see proper to accommodate him with their custom
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