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To: george76
Geoge was my great X7 uncle (through Martha).

It's good to see his distillery restored.

Can't wait until it's raided by the BATFE.

18 posted on 09/27/2006 7:37:49 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper

"...not technically a moonshiner, because the federal revenooers weren’t in business when he began making whiskey at the small distillery he built at Mount Vernon in 1797 after stepping down from the presidency.

But that distillery, and a larger one he built a year later, soon made the father of our country the biggest whiskey distributor in the newly formed United States, producing 11,000 gallons of liquor in 1798, the year before his death, and producing a profit of $7,500, a huge sum in those days. "


28 posted on 09/27/2006 7:49:01 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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