A bitten cookie with a frong on it.

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Commerce

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Cook, Dish, Entrepreneur, Tavern Keeper

Joseph and Lucretia Brown

Marblehead, Massachusetts | 1770

A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Joseph Brown was the keeper of Black Joe’s Tavern in Marblehead, Massachusetts. His wife Lucretia Thomas Brown also worked at the tavern, and invented the Joe Frogger molasses cookie made with rum, seawater, and spices.

Adopted By Kelly Moran