John Test Indicted
for
Selling Liquors Without License
The law requiring applications to the Governor, for license to keep tavern, had the effect of lessening the number of legalized public houses. Some still persisted in selling liquors without license, but through the vigilance of the Grand jury, few were allowed to escape the penalty of the law.
The Court did not, in every instance, at once cut short the traffic in liquor by persons whom they could not cordially indorse. As an instance of the leniency of the Justices in this respect, John Test was recommended to the Governor " for a license to sell strong liquors by retail for six months and no longer, in consideration that he now hath liquors lying on his hand, which cannot, without great damage, be vended as is supposed in much less time." John Test kept tavern in Darby.
Source: George Smith, History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Ashmead, 1862), p. 213.
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