Third Congress of the United States ... An Act directing a Detachment from the Militia of the United States

by Whiskey Rebellion

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2pp. on single folio sheet. Signed in print by George Washington, John Adams and Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg. Disbound. Numerical notation at upper left. Evans 27852. Item #366708 In 1791, as part of Alexander Hamilton's economic program, the Federal government issued a tax on distillers of whiskey. After several years of tension and hardships faced by farmers on Pennsylvania's western frontier for whom whiskey was a principal source of

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