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Blue Ball Tavern

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Established about 1710 on Lot No. 35 of “The Nottingham Lots” by Andrew Job, who secured it from William Penn, the tavern later became linked to Job’s son Thomas, who married Elizabeth Maxwell, a niece of Daniel Defoe, author of “Robinson Crusoe.”
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