A petition is not proof of a completed operation. Estate and church sources require their own provenance; do not generalize fixed gender or religious practices.
Thirsty Colonists; supplied 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
The chapter includes a woman's 1672 petition to distill corn spirits, estate stills, fruit-spirit production and Moravian distilling. Religious discipline of drunkenness coexisted with permitted production.
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Thirsty Colonists
Read against supplied PDF text and images. Locators are PDF screens, not printed pages. Verified means faithful source capture, not independent historical corroboration. A petition is not proof of a completed operation. Estate and church sources require their own provenance; do not generalize fixed gender or religious practices.
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Evidence
The chapter includes a woman's 1672 petition to distill corn spirits, estate stills, fruit-spirit production and Moravian distilling. Religious discipline of drunkenness coexisted with permitted production.
Location and context
No access; Thirsty Colonists; supplied PDF screens 21–25. These are not printed-page numbers. Edition: 2008 reissue of 1971 work.
Annotation
A petition is not proof of a completed operation. Estate and church sources require their own provenance; do not generalize fixed gender or religious practices.
Verification and use
A petition is not proof of a completed operation. Estate and church sources require their own provenance; do not generalize fixed gender or religious practices.
Faithful source capture checked against supplied text and images. This does not mean that every cited-through primary record has been independently verified.
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