Use the quantity as Hannush's cited secondary finding and verify Overton's underlying record before presenting it as independently confirmed primary evidence.
The source places the statistic inside a broader discussion of cash-poor farm distillers, federal collection, and Tennessee production.
Hannush reports that John Overton recorded more than 46,000 gallons distilled in Tennessee one year after the Whiskey Rebellion and that federal collectors operated in the state. This evidence undermines a simple story that distillers migrated to Tennessee chiefly to escape the federal whiskey tax.
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Andrew Jackson and the early federal excise
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