Evan Shelby document, 1780 Feb. 19.

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Evan Shelby document, 1780 Feb. 19.

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This document is an original agreement, dated February 19, 1780, between Evan Shelby and Pierce Wall to manufacture rye whiskey. According to his agreement with Wall, Shelby was to provide rye meal and malt at his distillery, logs for fuel and candles, and "to find" Wall in "Diet and Washing." Wall was to be allowed the fifth part of the whiskey distilled through the arrangement, divided weekly. Wall agreed to cut his own firewood, and to make malt and two gallons of whiskey for every bushel of rye he distilled.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Shelby, Evan, 1719-1794

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Evan Shelby, a native of Wales, immigrated to America with his family when he was fourteen or fifteen and settled in Pennsylvania. His family moved to Maryland a few years later. Shelby acquired nearly 24,000 acres of land in that state and engaged in the Indian fur trade as well. He entered the militia in Maryland and fought in the French and Indian War. Following the war, Shelby served as a justice of the peace for a number of years. In 1773, having lost most of his Maryland land to settle deb...

Wall, Pierce.

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