bafinesque's inventory 49 



"Notwithstanding these difficulties, many patriotic 

 in.livi.juai> have persisted in the endeavor to make 

 the I aited States a wine country, by establishing 

 uurseries and vineyards. Such were Major Adlnm, 

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

 also both published works od the cultivation of vii 

 Mr. Samuel Maurick, of South Carolina (the firsl 

 "porter of our eottoD in L784), who established a 

 large vineyard at Pendleton. Mr. Thomas Echel- 

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

 m establishing 20 vineyards aear York. 



"In 1825 I collected an account of our principal 

 vineyards and nurseries of vines. They were then 

 0,,1 . v ,;, » of 1 to 20 acres each, altogether 600 acres. 

 While now. in 1830, they anion, it 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 ftrsl 

 vineyards, I herewith insert their names. They are 

 independent of the vineyards of York. Vevay, and 

 Vincennt 



" Im x,u v '» k - ' Q bba, swift, Prin. 



it, &c. 



"I" Pennsylvania, Carr, James, Potter, J. Webb Legau 

 Echel Lemoine, Bapp. 



" '" DeUi .i. Qibbe, .v.-. 



"In Maryland, Adlum, w. ft Varle, R Sinclair \v 



&c. 



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



&v. 

 " I" Carolina, Rah rahani & c 



