Same as GROGGERY.
1790. There are some good taverns,… also an incredible number of petty ones, called grog shops.—J. B. Moreton, ‘The West Indies,’ p. 35. (N.E.D.)
1800. Are they not busy, day and night, at the corners of the streets, at grog shops, and other places of resort?—Mass. Mercury, May 2.
1803. Without stopping to notice the factious underlings of opposition, who formerly clamored against the Sedition Law, in grog-shops, in tavern bar rooms, at election-polls, and in democratic newspapers.—The Balance, March 8, p. 74/2.
1809. [He was] declaiming in every grog shop, that there must be a change of men.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 16.
1812. Till they should be landed safely in a grog-shop or tavern.—Boston-Gazette, Dec. 7.
1823. It is too often near a grog shop.—Mass. Spy, Dec. 3: from the Christian Mirror.
1829. Talking loudly in taverns and grog-shops of the great interests of the country.—Id., April 8: from the Williamstown Advocate.
1843. To enlarge the Congressional districts … would break the power of mere shake-hands and grog-shop influence.—Mr. Underwood of Kentucky, House of Repr., April 21: Cong. Globe, p. 437.
1854. In a city acknowledged by God the Eternal Father grog shops cannot be tolerated.—H. C. Kimball at the Mormon Tabernacle, Nov. 26: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 163.
