FRAUNCES TAVERN Restaurant — New York, New York Status: Operating · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fraunces-tavern-new-york-new-york/ The 1762 tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers. Fraunces Tavern is a restaurant in New York, New York. The 1762 tavern where Washington said farewell to his officers. It sits in the archive under haunted places and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still serves diners. For HauntHunt it is exactly the kind of file the archive exists for: a real place, a real record, and a story still being told. Fraunces Tavern is the room where the war ended — the Pearl Street tavern where Washington said goodbye to his officers on December 4, 1783, nine days after the last British troops left American soil. Tallmadge's memoir is the only firsthand account: Washington's voice broke, he embraced each man, and 'the passions of human nature were never more tenderly agitated.' Then he walked to the ferry and went to resign his commission. The tavern earned the farewell — Samuel Fraunces, the Black West Indian proprietor, had been the Patriots' man since before the war: the Sons of Liberty met in his rooms, the Asia fired a cannonball through his roof in '75, and in 1783 the Birch Commission met there to certify the Black Loyalists who'd earned freedom — the Book of Negroes records compiled in the same building where Washington was celebrating. The Long Room's bill for Washington's 1776 banquet survives: 78 bottles of Madeira, 30 of port, and sixteen shillings for broken glasses. The building survived the city — it was the young republic's first office building, housing Foreign Affairs, War, and Treasury while the government was in New York; Hamilton and Burr dined together there a week before the duel. When it was threatened with demolition in 1900, it became one of the first buildings saved by the preservation movement — the tavern that's a museum now, the Long Room where the war ended still the room it happened in. Fraunces Tavern is the archive's farewell file — the 1783 goodbye in the Long Room, the Birch Commission's Book of Negroes, the first federal offices, and the building the preservationists saved before there was a preservation law. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Fraunces Tavern is the archive's room file — the tavern where the Revolution's last act played, where the Black Loyalists' freedom was certified, and where the federal government's first offices ran. A room that witnessed the end keeps its dimensions — the file's suggestion being that the tavern's hold is the Long Room: the space where Washington's voice broke, where the officers drank the Madeira, and where the war was finished before it was a country. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] apparition: Reported a presence in the museum rooms. An old restaurant in New York, New York gives the account a setting with real history behind the bar. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. 'Fraunces Tavern' carries the account. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming. source: Fraunces Tavern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · Washington’s 1783 farewell is documented. The restaurant's documented history in New York, New York is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Fraunces Tavern'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context. SOURCES — 1 cited · Fraunces Tavern — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/