You know, this is actually a discovery of very scandalous abuse of Government power by Washington. Under Madison's heinous whiskey tax, George Washington ordered the mobilization of 12,950 troops from eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey in August 1794 to attack all the small distillers who ignored the burdensome tax.(It certainly set the stage whereby only "big corporations" such as himself could afford to be in business through economies of scale!) The tax on whiskey was not repealed until 1802 by Jefferson.
This is indeed, very, VERY scandalous!!!
Washington was also a surveyor early in his life. If I remember correctly, he was a speculator - involved in several inside deals to his advantage in Ohio.
Re: My replies #13 & #16:
If this article is true, I am absolutely nauseated at what a corrupt SOB George Washington was!