History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . e terms ofcourt. South of and adjoining the tavern lot was themarket lot, on which stood the old w-ooden market-house, though the date of its erection is not Collins kept this tavern until 1811. In thewar of 1812 he was in command of a company locallyknown as the Madison Rowdies. When the major ofthe regiment to which it was attached was wounded,Capt. Collins, as senior line-otRcer, became major. The one act of liis life which (though not entirelyunjustifiable J ho regr
History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . e terms ofcourt. South of and adjoining the tavern lot was themarket lot, on which stood the old w-ooden market-house, though the date of its erection is not Collins kept this tavern until 1811. In thewar of 1812 he was in command of a company locallyknown as the Madison Rowdies. When the major ofthe regiment to which it was attached was wounded,Capt. Collins, as senior line-otRcer, became major. The one act of liis life which (though not entirelyunjustifiable J ho regretted more than any other, wasthe giving of an unlucky blow to Patrick McDonald,a hatter, who kept a shop west of Greggs hotel, andwas a son-in-law of Christian Tarr. This man, whenunder the influence of liquor, having applied oppro-brious epithets to his wife, Capt. Collins promptlyknocked him down, and he died almost instantlyfrom the effects of the blow. Collins was arrested,tried, and honorably acquitted, but the affair was al-ways afterwards a source of great distress to him, for I Capt John F Gi-aj tl. he had no brutal instinct in his nature, but was oneof the most amiable and kind-hearted of men. Cornelius Lynch was licensed as an inn-keeper inMarch, 1795. He owned and carried on a brewery onthe west side of Morgantown Street near Main, andhis tavern-house was doubtless at the same his death his widow kept a baker-shop there formany years. Richard Weaver, who first received license in June,1795, kept a log tavern on Elbow (Main) Street, at ornear the present site of the McClelland House. Laterthe property passed to William McClelland, who waslicensed as an inn-keeper in December, 1802. AlfredMcClelland, the son of William, built the McClellandHouse, which is still owned by the McClelland familyand carried on as a hotel. At the September session of 1796 there were beforethe court forty-eight applications for tavern licensesin the county, of which twelve were b
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