This application is designed to be completed on your computer using Microsoft WORD.
When completed, please print the document on plain, white letter size (8.5" by 11") paper, and staple the pages of the application together in the top left-hand corner. Do not bind punch any other holes in this application. Please retain the document on your computer until you are notified that your application has been approved. We request that you do this so that, if there are program errors, your application can be corrected without retyping.
Please do not attach documents to the application, and please do not submit your application and proofs in bound form.
The qualifying Taverner (Number 1) at the top of page 2 of the application is a person licensed to sell spirituous liquors or keep an inn or other hostelry no later than July 4, 1776. Evidence must be submitted in support of this claim. Please note: Individuals who were licensed to brew, but otherwise did not have a tavern or an inn do not qualify. People who posted a bond for another person to keep a tavern or an inn do not qualify.
Please provide full names wherever possible. Do not use initials unless necessary. Women should be listed with their maiden name. All dates should be given as 04 Oct 1734. If information is unknown or not applicable for a specific blank, please leave the blank empty; do not use designations such as "N/A" or "-0-" or "living." If a baptismal date is known but not the birth date change the b. to bapt. and put in that date.
Complete the genealogical portion of the application so that it resembles the following paragraph, and please be sure to use proper bibliographic citations when you define your proofs.
4. James Falsinghampton b. 23 Jan 1641/2 at New Haven, CT d. 07 Dec 1728 at Thumpton, RI m. 12 Oct 1668 at Boston, MA to Mehitable Cromwich b. 25 Feb 1643/4 at Fairfield, CT d. 02 Nov 1723 at Thumpton, RI
Proofs: TAG, Vol. 22, pp. 88-96; Thumpton, RI Death Rec. to the Year 1850, E.P. Rice (Boston: New England Press, 1992), pp. 70-71; L.L. Commoner, Boston Marriages Before 1900, (Boston: Harvard Publishers, 1922), p. 313.
It is necessary that the applicant prove, through acceptable documentation, every name, date and place submitted on this application. Acceptable documentation includes: birth, death and marriage certificates or records, federal and state censuses, Social Security death index transcriptions, tombstone transcriptions, photographs of tombstones (with the name and location of cemetery stated on reverse of photograph), bible records (must include copyright page), wills and estate documents, military pension records, obituaries (with the name and date of the newspaper from which they are culled) and other similar genealogical records. Family histories that do not cite to original source materials are not acceptable. GEDCOMS and Internet sources generated by family historians are not acceptable means of proof. This society does not accept record copies of proven applications to other societies. A copy of the title page from all published sources must be provided. If you have any questions or doubts about the acceptability of a resource, please contact the Keeper of the Tavern Records to determine its acceptability BEFORE submitting it.
Please number your proofs according to the generation(s) they support, and underline the pertinent information on each page.
Upon completion, send this application by U.S. Postal Mail to the Keeper of the Tavern Records with your check, payable to "Flagon & Trencher," in the amount of $75 for application fee and life dues. (If this is a supplemental application, the amount of the check should be $25.) Please do not send applications via "registered" or "certified" mail.
If you have questions, please contact the Keeper of the Tavern Records by mail at 1716 Bigley Avenue, Charleston, WV 25302, by telephone at 304/340-0200, or by e-mail at Jraywalt@aol.com. THANK YOU for your interest in Flagon & Trencher.