Preserve attribution and distinguish well-supported skilled labor from more specific friendship, chronology, and first-distiller claims that require the underlying records. Audit2026-09-28: Specific origins in Tolley/Call practice and personal chronology include explicit conjecture; retain that uncertainty.
The source reconstructs an underdocumented labor relationship from tax, census, property, family, and later narrative evidence.
Hannush identifies Nearest Green as the skilled distiller working within the enterprise later associated with Jack Daniel and uses the case to distinguish the person performing distillation from the proprietor, trademark holder, promoter, and brand-builder.
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Nearest Green, Jack Daniel, and skilled distilling labor
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