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barnuscd at to apply to congress for a bill 



Distilling spirits from the diflcicai fruits 

 mc to be the ino9t nro6ttbl€ 

 mode of making great part ui uic i^nu^ lu 

 A: .J .due. As a proof of this, 



Gcacial Washington, V^ re hisdcath, had 

 1 sjd A still, tlioiigh he was only nine 

 miles from 111.11 



From the different observations I have 

 made, the rcukr in.iv l.i llv v- 

 unfit ail -L..^iili lormtT i^ tn mltlv.ire thr 

 M> ' r America. The .1 



usual phrase, t!ia! 1 > t'dri....^ can do 



nothing in tl iry. I feci panivi:- 



larly for the poor souN w!in have ..:t 

 \\*..!^s. I li.ivc h.iil a great m. i of llicm 

 at my Iioum: at Orange-Hill, wmiing etn- 

 j>l()y ; but they were unav .1 to the 



work I wanted men for at that time, — top- 



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pare them to nothing but uii old livi v. 

 turned out on a to pine and starve 



to dwauii as there ar^ uo poor-laws in that 



