a tear through yesteryear
The Irish have the first written record of Whiskey appearing in the Irish Annuals of Clonmacnoise in 1405; the Scotts have written documentation of Whisky making in an Exchequer Roll entry dating to 1494.
In the early 1700s both Scotland and Ireland commonly spelled “whisky” without an “e”.[1]Micallef, Joseph V. “Is It Whisky Or…
Tar and feathering of tax collectors; slaves using guns to defend their owner/taxmen, burning of a tax man’s home, shootings (including a mob of 500 taking on ten federal soldiers protecting a tax man’s home).