The term has a number of definitions, but in the sense of your reference, it is " dining room or eating house, or house of public entertainment (as opposed to a house of private entertainment) where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged."
   from the Dictionary of Genealogical & Archaic Terms, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~randyj2222/gendicto.html
 
  -- Randy Jones




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From: Quan Pruitt <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:36:01 AM
Subject: Ordinary

I always learn something new on this list.
Could someone explain what "Joseph Wood that has a license to run an Ordinary in 1785" means.
Ordinary is that like a Inn or tavern or ?

Thanks,
Quan

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