Broadens American-whiskey history to include the pre-whiskey material and commercial infrastructure of colonial distilling.
A history lead rather than a finished genealogy of American whiskey. Exact dates, counts, and causal inheritance require independent archival corroboration.
Stewart reports that rum distilling became a major New England industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and helped support shipbuilding, logging, ironwork, and cooperage. Those trades supplied material capacity later used across American spirits, including vessels for producing, maturing, storing, and shipping whiskey.
Printed p. 459 / PDF sheet 1128
Printed p. 457 / PDF sheet 1125
Chapter 25 — A short history of rum
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Evidence
Stewart reports that rum distilling became a major New England industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and helped support shipbuilding, logging, ironwork, and cooperage. Those trades supplied material capacity later used across American spirits, including vessels for producing, maturing, storing, and shipping whiskey.
Location and context
- Source: No access
- Section: Chapter 25 — A short history of rum
- Locator: printed pp. 457–459 / PDF sheets 1125–1128
- Type: Paraphrase
- Boundary: broad infrastructure context, not a direct firm genealogy or archival count.