Maple-charcoal leaching predates and was not exclusive to Tennessee

Use Hannush PDF sheets 95 and 116 and Weaver PDF sheet 201. Keep the correction qualified and attribute detailed patent or first-use assertions until primary evidence is opened.

The evidence summarized by Hannush does not support exclusive Tennessee origin or invention by Alfred Eaton. This is a qualified secondary-source correction; the cited early patents and records require direct inspection.

Source passages checked; convergence between Hannush and Weaver is partly dependent. This does not independently verify the underlying patent or first-use records.

Draft as an evidence-based correction: the available evidence does not support exclusive Tennessee or single-inventor origin. The underlying 1802 patent and other cited primary records have not yet been opened in this system, and Tennessee’s later durable association remains historically significant.

Hannush and Weaver support a qualified nonexclusive origin, but Weaver cites Hannush: two authors do not establish independent evidence streams. The primary patent and first-use records require separate inspection.

September30 fresh Whiskey Lore audit retains the qualified nonexclusive-origin interpretation. Earlier wording claiming two independent authors is superseded: Weaver cites Hannush. Other linked evidence and draft relationships are preserved.