My Boyer's book is out on loan, but I do have info in another book re: Tuckerton.
First tavern keeper was Joseph Gaunt, who was licensed in July 1769. Followed by Reuben Tucker in 1774 as keeper of the tavern on Main Street near Wood Street.
"Tuckerton Township, whose boundaries were defined by the court at Burlington at the May 1741 term, is very often confused with Little Egg Harbor. Actually it is on Tuckerton Creek, which leads into Little Egg Harbor Inlet and so to the Atlantic Ocean.
Another colonial tavern in Tuckerton was opened by Caleb Evans, also in 1769, in a frame building thatstood a few doors north of the present Carlton Hotel. The Carlton Hotel was formerly known as the Union Hotel and was not established until about 1819, judging from the first license application." -Van Hoesen
John Pearce says "The actual stage taverns were limited by law in number and location. They had to be a half day's journey apart. In what would become Washington Township, additional inns were built at Hampton Gate and Quaker Bridge (where the road crossed the Batsto River). Another would be built on the Quaker Bridge Road at Mount. The last stop before the "town" of Little Egg Harbor Meeting was the Bass River Hotel, where the stage route crossed the river of that name. After Tuckerton received its name in 1798, this old Road to Little Egg Harbor became known as the Tuckerton Road. For a hundred years, this route bisected what would be, by 1802, Washington Township, and the little towns along the way were prosperous. Next to the Mullica itself, this road was the artery along which flowed the lifeblood of the pines. The taverns were the central meeting places, the voting stations, the gatherining places for local militia training, and the hangouts for the workers in the iron furnaces and forges which dotted the area. "
