Mount Vernon's five-still enterprise recorded 10,942 gallons in 1799 and relied on six named enslaved distillers

Use the production figures with the named labor attribution; do not narrate Washington or Anderson as the only makers.

Institutional synthesis grounded in linked Washington correspondence, the distillery ledger, and specialist bibliography.

Mount Vernon's institutional history states that James Anderson proposed rye-and-corn whiskey production in January 1797 and that the resulting distillery was operating by spring 1798. In 1799, its ledger recorded more than eighty transactions totaling 10,942 gallons valued at $7,674. Hanson, Peter, Nat, Daniel, James, and Timothy are named as enslaved distillers who performed the production labor.

paragraph naming Hanson, Peter, Nat, Daniel, James, and Timothy

article opening through paragraph beginning 'By the spring of 1798'

George Washington's Distillery article body

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