48^ FOX HUNTING. 



Samuel C. Lewis, the real owners under this deed; 

 the purchase being made by them to secure the 

 tavern stand for the present landlord, Benjamin 

 Rogers, and to have a permanent place for the 

 keeping of the club hounds; for it will be seen 

 that this old hotel property had changed its land- 

 lords quite frequently in these later years, and the 

 kind of accommodations the club was to have were 

 very uncertain, "Uncle Benny Rogers," as he is 

 familiarly called, went to the Lamb tavern, m 

 Springfield township, as landlord in the spring of 

 1868, and to the Rose Tree tavern in the spring 

 of 1872. 



J. Edward Farnum had been an active mem- 

 ber of the club from about 1861; Samuel C. 

 Lewis and Fairman Rogers having joined some- 

 what later. 



The Rose Tree Club, organized as before 

 stated, packed its hounds during the hunting 

 season at this old tavern property from the time 

 J. Morgan Baker became the landlord until some 

 time in 1870, at which time, Thos. Garrett being 

 landlord and tenant under the James D. Velott 

 ownership, and some disagreement with Garrett 

 having arisen, the hounds were taken from the 

 Rose Tree and packed, first at the Orchard prop- 

 erty of George E. Darlington, near Media, and 

 then at the Lamb tavern in Springfield, then kept 



