"drugstore" 1771, 1772; antedates 1810 --

[Joel S. Berson]

1)  1771

Stole, the evening of the 3d instant, out of the subscribers
drug-store in Second-Street, ... a block of Speltre or Zinc ...

Pennsylvania Chronicle [Philadelphia]; Date From Monday, January 7,
to Monday, January 14, 1771; Volume: IV; Issue: 51; Page: 206 [page
4], col. 3.  [EAN]

2)  1772

Drugs and Medicines of all kinds to be sold, wholesale and retail, on
the lowest terms, at P. Kennedy and Company's Drug-Store, the corner
of Market and Frederick streets ...

Pennsylvania Chronicle [Philadelphia]; Date: From Saturday, August
29, to Saturday, September 5, 1772; Volume: VI; Issue: 33; Page: 135
[page 3], col. 2.

3)  1772

Just Imported in the Earl of Dunmore, Capt. Lawrenc. and to be sold
by Donald McLean, At his Drug Store in Hanover-Square. A Fresh and
general assortment of genuine Drugs and Medicines, with a variety of
patent medicines warranted genuine; likewise complete sets of
chirurgical instruments ...

New-York Journal [NYC]; Date: 10-29-1772; Issue: 1556; Page: 765
[page 3], col. 3.  [EAN]

[P.S.  Google Books' hit for "The statutes at large ..." 1763 is
actually "drugsters"; and its "Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum" 1715
hit is (as best I can make out) "a Drugeist".  I didn't bother to
check into the 1609 "Drugstore cowboy".]

Joel

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