1 of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Temple. In 1732, the tavern hosted the first meetings of St. George's Society (a charitable organization founded to assist needy Englishmen arriving in the new colony-predecessor of today's Sons of the Society of St. Tun Tavern hosted the first meetings of a number of organizations.
In the 1740s, a restaurant appellation, 'Peggy Mullan's Red Hot Beef Steak Club' was added to the name of the tavern. Tun Tavern was named for the Old English word 'tun', meaning a barrel or keg of beer. Joshua Carpenter built the Tun on the caraway that led to Carpenter's Wharf. The tavern was erected in 1686 at the intersection of King (later called Water) Street and Tun Alley by settler Joshua Carpenter, brother of Samuel Carpenter, a Quaker merchant who made a fortune trading in Barbados. 1.2 Organizations founded in the tavern.
