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The structure was originated in 1756 by Judge Thomas Leonard, who moved there to spend the last years of his life and in view of the college he had helped to bring to Princeton. When he passed away in 1769, Judge Leonard's elegant town residence became a hostelry, called by its new owner "College Inn". The first proprietor was Christopher Beekman, whose natural talent as an Innkeeper soon developed the establishment into the center of the town's life.
Wine and argument flowed freely in Christopher Beekman's taproom, or drinking room, where his wife helped tend the punchbowls. During these parlous times, students and townsmen drank eagerly of the news and opinions of honored guests such as Paul Revere, Robert Morris, and Thomas Paine, who stayed the night more than once at the hospitable public house.
In 1775, the Committee of Safety met at College Inn, and a few weeks later, delegates were stopping overnight on their way to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Signers of the Declaration of Independence, passing through Princeton in 1776, rested at College Inn.
As the war began, military men took the place of travelers. Officers of the Continental Army, also the British and Hessians (depending upon which side was in possession of the town), whiled away their time in the taproom. Months later the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Peace Treaty were properly celebrated over College Inn punchbowls. When the Continental Congress met in Princeton in 1783, the national celebrities of the day were guests of the Inn, which were just a few steps from the historic session in Nassau Hall.
The structure was originated in 1756 by Judge Thomas Leonard, who moved there to spend the last years of his life and in view of the college he had helped to bring to Princeton. When he passed away in 1769, Judge Leonard's elegant town residence became a hostelry, called by its new owner "College Inn". The first proprietor was Christopher Beekman, whose natural talent as an Innkeeper soon developed the establishment into the center of the town's life.
Wine and argument flowed freely in Christopher Beekman's taproom, or drinking room, where his wife helped tend the punchbowls. During these parlous times, students and townsmen drank eagerly of the news and opinions of honored guests such as Paul Revere, Robert Morris, and Thomas Paine, who stayed the night more than once at the hospitable public house.
In 1775, the Committee of Safety met at College Inn, and a few weeks later, delegates were stopping overnight on their way to the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Signers of the Declaration of Independence, passing through Princeton in 1776, rested at College Inn.
As the war began, military men took the place of travelers. Officers of the Continental Army, also the British and Hessians (depending upon which side was in possession of the town), whiled away their time in the taproom. Months later the Battle of Yorktown and the signing of the Peace Treaty were properly celebrated over College Inn punchbowls. When the Continental Congress met in Princeton in 1783, the national celebrities of the day were guests of the Inn, which were just a few steps from the historic session in Nassau Hall.
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