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"Notwithstanding these difficulties, many patriotic 

 individuals have persisted in the endeavor to make 

 the United States a wine country, by establishing 

 nurseries and vineyards. Such were Major Adlum, 

 of Georgetown, and Mr. Dufour, of Vevay, who have 

 also both published works on the cultivation of vines. 

 Mr. Samuel Maurick, of South Carolina (the first 

 exporter of our cotton in 1784), who established a 

 large vineyard at Pendleton. Mr. Thomas Echel- 

 berger, of York, Penn., who has been instrumental 

 in establishing 20 vineyards near York. 



"In 1825 I collected an account of our principal 

 vineyards and nurseries of vines. They were then 

 only 60 of 1 to 20 acres each, altogether 600 acres. 

 While now, in 1830, they amount to 200 of 3 to 40 

 acres, or nearly 5,000 acres of vineyards. Thus hav- 

 ing increased tenfold within 5 years, at which rate 

 they promise to become a permanent and increasing 

 cultivation. 



"Wishing to preserve the names of the public 

 benefactors who had in 1825 established our first 

 vineyards, I herewith insert their names. They are 

 independent of the vineyards of York, Vevay, and 

 Vincennes. 



"In New York, George Gibbs, Swift, Prince, Lansing, 

 Loubat, &c. 



"In Pennsylvania, Ca'rr, James, Potter, J. Webb, Legaux, 

 Echelberger, E. Bonsall, Stoys, Lemoine, Rapp. 



"In Delaware, Broorae, J. Gibbs, &c. 



"In Maryland, Adlutn, W. Bernie, C. Varle, R. Sinclair, W. 

 Miles, &c. 



"In Virginia, Lockhart, Zane, R. Weir, Noel, J. Browne, J. 

 Duling, &c. 



"In Carolina, Habersham, Noisette, &c. 



