Tag: On this day in history

That Virginia Bourbon

On this day in 1789, Reverend Elijah Craig was the first to distill whiskey from maize. It was named Bourbon since Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Or, what is now known as Bourbon County, Kentucky. See, Kentucky didn’t become a state until 1792, which makes bourbon, uniquely Virginian. Don’t get me wrong, I have …

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The mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty …

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