"...not technically a moonshiner, because the federal revenooers weren’t in business when he began making whiskey at the small distillery he built at Mount Vernon in 1797 after stepping down from the presidency.
But that distillery, and a larger one he built a year later, soon made the father of our country the biggest whiskey distributor in the newly formed United States, producing 11,000 gallons of liquor in 1798, the year before his death, and producing a profit of $7,500, a huge sum in those days. "
Not to disparage a distant relative, but that makes one wonder about this little incident: