Thanks for the link.
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  From: Randy Jones<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: Quan Pruitt<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
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  Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:02 AM
  Subject: Re: Ordinary


  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<file:///C:/Users/Randy/Documents/My%20Webpages/gendicth.html#houseprivateentertainment>) 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<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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