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George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799 W&M ScholarWorks Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects 2002 A Study of Transition in Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799 Anna Catherine Borden anderson College of William & Mary - Arts & Sciences Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd Part of the Economic History Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation anderson, Anna Catherine Borden, "A Study of Transition in Plantation Economy: George Washington's Whiskey Distillery, 1799" (2002). Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects. Paper 1539626357. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.21220/s2-d6ce-k310 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Dissertations, & Master Projects at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A STUDY OF TRANSITION IN PLANTATION ECONOMY: GEORGE WASHINGTON’S WHISKEY DISTILLERY, 1799 A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Department of Anthropology The College of William and Mary In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Anna Catherine Borden Anderson 2002 APPROVAL SHEET This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of The requirement for the degree of Master of Arts Author Approved, May 2002 Kathleen J. Bragdon, Ph.D. Theodore R. Reinhart, Ph.D. Dennis J. Pogue, $i.D. Director of Restoration Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association DEDICATION For Chris In memory of Hildegard L. Borden TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS V LIST OF TABLES vi LIST OF FIGURES vii ABSTRACT viii INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER I. ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY: OPEN AND CLOSED COMMUNITIES 6 CHAPTER II. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: WHISKEY AND AGRICULTURE 20 CHAPTER m. EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY AT MOUNT VERNON: THE BLACKSMITH SHOP, THE FISHERIES, AND THE GRISTMILL 27 CHAPTER IV. METHODOLOGY 38 CHAPTER V. THE DISTILLERY: 1799 61 CHAPTER VI. CONSUMER CASE STUDIES 88 CONCLUSION 98 APPENDIX 102 BIBLIOGRAPHY 114 iv ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank a number of individuals for their support and contributions to my thesis; without their input this paper would never have been finished. My largest thanks and appreciation goes to my husband Chris, who has remained patient, supportive and understanding throughout the entire process. He listened to me think out loud ad nauseum and continued to remain interested. Without his support, I’m not sure that I would have been able to finish it. I would also like to thank Dr. Dennis J. Pogue and Ms. Esther C. White for their insightful contributions, bi-weekly lunch meetings to discuss my progress and willingness to read and comment on multiple drafts. A special thanks to Ms. White for providing the information from the Farm Work Reports and the Colonial Williamsburg Social History Database. Thank you also to Drs. Bragdon and Reinhart for their patience, for agreeing to sit on my committee and for their insightful comments. Ms. Barbara McMillan’s flexibility and understanding cannot go unrecognized. She allowed me to borrow the microfilm on which the ledger was recorded so that I could work on it at my own pace. For that, I am most appreciative. Goodbye, Monkey! v LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Distillery Daily Log for 1799 102 2. All Individuals and Businesses Recorded in Ledger 2 42 3. Individuals and Businesses Who Purchased Whiskey from the Distillery, Recorded in Ledger 2 46 4. Discrepancies in Volumes and Values of Alcohol in 1799 in Ledger 2 53 5. All Transactions Occurring at the Distillery, Recorded in Ledger 2 (1797-1801) 54 6. Grain Distribution from Mount Vernon’s Farm Work Reports, April 1798 to January 1799 60 7. Annual Volumes of Alcohol Sold by the Distillery and Recorded in Individual Accounts in Ledgers 1 and 2, January 1797 to March 1800 68 8. Distillery Comparison 69 9. Monthly Volumes of Alcohol Sold by the Distillery and Recorded in Individual Accounts in Ledgers 1 and 2, January 1797 to March 1800 73 10. Categorization of Payment Methods by Distillery Clientele in Ledger 2 in 1799 90 vi LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 1. 1793 Map of Washington’s Five Farms 24 2. Monthly Breakdown of All Alcohol Sold by Distillery January 1797 to January 1799, Recorded in Ledger 1 (1797-1799) 79 3. Monthly Breakdown of All Alcohol Sold by Distillery March 1798 to March 1800, Recorded in Ledger 2 (1797-1801) 80 4. Monthly Breakdown of All Alcohol Sold by Distillery January 1797 to March 1800, Recorded in Ledger 1 (1797-1799) and Ledger 2 (1797-1801) 81 vii ABSTRACT This thesis examines the evolution of the economic relationship between Mount Vernon and the surrounding community, culminating in a discussion of Washington’s whiskey distillery in 1799. These changing complex economic relationships are reviewed within the context of eighteenth-century closed and open economic societies. Frank Cancian (1989) and William Roseberry (1989), anthropologists working in Mexico and Venezuela in the 1960s, described closed economic communities as (1) self- sufficient in their economy and material goods production; (2) insulated from the cultures of the surrounding communities by maintaining traditions and rituals that support the internal structure of the economy; and (3) organized with a rigid and hierarchical social structure. By contrast, an open economic society (1) relies on regional and global markets for both its economy and material goods; (2) assimilates itself with the cultures of the surrounding communities in order to better capitalize on the available markets; and (3) has a social hierarchy that is based on financial success, rather than rigid traditions and rituals. This paper provides examples of Mount Vernon’s economic evolution beginning in 1760 with the blacksmith shop, moving on to Washington’s fisheries and gristmill and ending with the distillery in 1799. By Washington’s death in December 1799, the plantation’s economy had transitioned from a heavily agrarian enterprise to one mixed with and balanced with commercialization. Examples of the diversity in the distillery’s product, clientele and payment structure provide the documentary support for this argument. A STUDY OF TRANSITION IN PLANTATION ECONOMY: GEORGE WASHINGTON’S WHISKEY DISTILLERY, 1799 Alcohol was pervasive in American society; it crossed regional, sexual, racial, and class lines. Americans drank at home and abroad, alone and together, at work and at play, in fun and in earnest. They drank from the crack of dawn to the crack of dawn. At nights taverns were filled with boisterous, mirth-making tipplers. Americans drank before meals, with meals and after meals. They drank while working in the fields and while traveling across half a continent. They drank in their youth, and, if they lived long enough, in their old age. They drank at formal events, such as weddings, ministerial ordinations, and wakes, and on no occasion - by the fireside of an evening, on a hot afternoon, when the mood called. From sophisticated Andover to frontier Illinois, from Ohio to Georgia, in lumbercamps and on satin settees, in long taverns and at fashionable New York hotels, the American greeting was, “Come, Sir, take a dram first.” Seldom was it refused. - W.J. Rorabaugh Alcohol, my permanent accessory. Alcohol, a party time necessity. - The Bare Naked Ladies 2 INTRODUCTION It is the thesis of this paper that George Washington, through the implementation of various industries at Mount Vernon, experienced a shift in his economic relationship with the surrounding community at the end of the eighteenth century. Utilizing the anthropological model of open and closed societies as a guide, this thesis will attempt to demonstrate that Mount Vernon began as a closed economic society and by the time of Washington’s death in December 1799, had moved closer to an open economic society in its daily operations. The data set forth in this paper will support the author’s theory that Mount Vernon plantation experienced a shift in its economic interaction with the surrounding community. When Washington took control of the plantation in 1754, it was well ensconced in the Chesapeake planter culture, and reliant on England as a retail outlet. However, beginning with his active development of the plantation’s fisheries in the 1780s, Mount Vernon’s economy slowly became more commercial in its economic endeavors and slowly began to acquire many of the traits common to a commercial enterprise, some of which are characterized the Philadelphia merchant class. By Washington’s death in 1799, Mount Vernon’s economy was reliant on both the agricultural activities on the plantation and the commercial activities at the fisheries, gristmill and distillery. Using the information recorded in 1799 in the Mount Vernon Farm Ledger (1797-1801), the only complete year recorded in the ledger, this thesis will examine some of the multi- 3 4 faceted economic relationships between Mount Vernon and the surrounding community that contributed to the plantation’s economic evolution. The first chapter reviews the models of closed and open economic societies as characterized by Frank Cancian (1989) and William Roseberry (1989) in their 1960s anthropological field research in Mexico and Venezuela. Their research provides an anthropological framework for this paper, which includes a summary of the significant features of closed and open economies. Once the distinguishing features of the two types of economic communities are identified, and to provide an historical perspective, they are applied to the eighteenth-century in a brief comparison of the Chesapeake planters and the Philadelphia merchants as representatives of closed and open economic communities. Chapter II summarizes eighteenth century attitudes towards alcohol, specifically whiskey, as studied by Rorabaugh (1979). This chapter also provides a brief discussion of the changing agricultural environment at Mount Vernon, which served in a key role in the economic transformation of the plantation.
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