A key corrective to vague claims that the present distillery operated continuously from the eighteenth century.
This is the author’s evidentiary boundary after evaluating earlier traditions.
Pacult presents Swigert's1857 compound and an1858 sale advertisement as the earliest secure evidence of equipped distillery premises at Leestown, while acknowledging that actual-production records from that ownership have not been found (PDF62–63).
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Chapter 5 — Earliest documented distilling
Fresh full-copy audit, 2026-09-29. PDF62–63: sale advertisement documents equipped premises, but author acknowledges no records of actual Swigert production. Do not convert earliest equipment evidence into demonstrated continuous distillation.
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