PITTSBURGH’S OLD STONE TAVERN FRIENDS TRUST, INC.
http://postfriendstrust.org
ANNUAL Public MEETING
Saturday, August 22, 2015
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
WEST END BRANCH
Wabash at Neptune Street, West End
THE WHISKEY REBELLION
THE ROLE THE OLD STONE TAVERN PLAYED IN THE REBELLION
Presentation by: Norene Beatty
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THE OLD STONE TAVERN circa 1782
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Whiskey Rebellion Flag
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1752 Indian Path Map
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Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury
Author of the Whiskey Excise Tax
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The Whiskey Boys
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The Old Stone Tavern Ledger
Of 1793 into 1797
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Hugh Brackenridge
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President George Washington
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Reading Howell’s 1792 Map
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THE NEVILLE CONNECTION
 John Neville
 Presley Neville (son)
 Major Abraham Kirkpatrck (brother-in-law of John Neville)
 Isaac Craig (son-in-law of John Neville)
 General Daniel Morgan (father-in-law of Presley Neville)
 John Woods (attorney for Neville)
 Senator James Ross of Washington County (John Wood’s brother-in-law)
ENEMY OF THE NEVILLE CONNECTION
 Attorney Hugh Brackenridge (executor of Daniel Elliott’s estate)
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Tar and Feathering of Robert Johnson – Sept. 6, 1791
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TOM THE TINKER
John Reed received the first note from Tom the Tinker
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Andrew Boggs, who also had an account in the ledger, was a
resident of Moon Township. He was very concerned when he
learned that his neighbors thought he was going to be a revenue
man for Neville. Boggs was so concerned that he appealed to John
Neville to publish in the Pittsburgh Gazette the following that he.
“He, John Neville never thought of asking Andrew Boggs to fill
such an office”. Boggs plea and influence was such that John
Neville complied with his request and John Neville had Boggs’s
words published in the Pittsburgh Gazette.
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Marshall David Lenox and General John Neville – July 15, 1794
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Whiskey Boys go to Neville for Marshall Lenox – July 16, 1794
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The burning of Neville’s Plantation – July 17, 1794
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Two days after the burning of John Neville’s plantation an advertisement
was placed in the Pittsburgh Gazette by Tom the Tinker warning John Reed, a
neighbor of John Neville. The last two paragraphs read:
“And Whereas, a certain John Reed, now resident in Washington, and
being at this place near Pittsburgh, called Reedburg, and having a set of stills
employed at said Reedsburg, entered on the excise docket, contrary to the said
law, by aiding and assisting in the late expedition, has by delinquency,
manifested his approbation to the execution of the aforesaid law, is hereby,
forthwith to cause the contents of this paper, with out adding and diminishing,
to be published in the Pittsburg Gazette the ensuing week, under no less
penalty than the consumption of his distillery.
Given under my hand this nineteenth day of July, one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-four. Tom the Tinker.
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John McKee also a name in the ledger had the following printed in the August 12, 1794
issue of the Pittsburgh Gazette. “whereas some evil minded and ill disposed persons, with a
view, no doubt, to injure me, both in my character and property, have circulated two false
reports against me and my family. One is that when I was last in Philadelphia, I informed
upon the distillers on this side of the mountain, who had not entered their stills with the excise
man, and had received three hundred pounds for the same, and that I came with the Federal
Sheriff of Fayette County. The other is that Mrs. McKee should have said that, if Tom the
Tinker burn all we had, the State would make it good. Now I do hereby solemnly declare the
above reports to be false and groundless: that I do not know Clymer or Miller, the excise men,
or Lennox the Federal Sheriff, nor ever spoke a word to one of them in my life, and on this I
am ready to make oath, if called upon. And I do hereby call upon the malicious and
propagators to come forward and substantiate the charges, and do hereby put the world of
mankind to defiance to prove and support the same. Mouth of Yough., August 12, 1794 John
McKee”.
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David Bradford, Attorney from Washington County
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July 26, 1794
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STOLEN LETTERS
From: Presley Neville
To: General Daniel Morgan, United States Army
From : James Brison
To: Governor Mifflin, of Pennsylvania
From: General John Gibson
To: Governor Mifflin of Pennsylvania
From: Edward Day
To: Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury
From: Major Thomas Butler
To: Henry Knox, Secretary of War
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Black Horse Tavern
On the Catfish Indian Trail
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FORT FAYETTE
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Braddock Field – August 1 to 5, 1794
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BANNISHED FROM THE AERA
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President Washington’s
PEACE COMMISSION
DEMAND
A
VOTE
YEA OR NAY
AND
FARMERS TO
SIGN OATH OF LOYALTY
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Parkinson Ferry – Aug 14, 1794
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Albert Gallatin
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Secretary of War Henry Knox – Sept. 24. 1794
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General Henry Lee
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President George Washington review of the Army in Cumberland, Maryland – Oct. 16, 1794
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General William Irvine, Nov. 9, 1794
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11-12-1794
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General Daniel Morgan
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President Thomas Jefferson
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The Old Stone Tavern would take part in
another fight over spirits called “prohibition”
but that is a story for another time.
PLEASE JOIN US
IN OUR ENDEAVOR TO SAVE THE
TAVERN
SO ALL HER STORIES CAN BE TOLD
FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
THANK YOU
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ACCOUNTS OF MEN
WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE WHISKEY REBELLION
IN THE OLD STONE TAVERNS LEDGER
Of 1793 INTO 1797
*MICHAEL BAKER
JOHN BALDWIN
JOHN BARNE
GABRIEL BLACKNEY
ANDREW BOGG
JAMES BRISON
*THOMAS BUTLER
ARTHUR CAMPBELL
JOHN CAMPBELL
JOHN CLARK
CAPTAIN COLHOUN
ADAM CRAIG
CHARLES CRAIG
ISAAC CRAIG
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM
GEORGE ELLIOTT
JOHN DUNLAP
ALEXANDER FULTON
JOHN FREW
JOHN GIBSON
JOHN HAMILTON
JAMES HUNTER
ROBERT JOHNSTON
SAMEUEL JOHNSTON
THOMAS LAPSLE
ALEXANDER LONG
JOHN LUCAS
JOHN MARSHALL
THOMAS MARSHALL
ROBERT MC CLURE
ROBERT MC CLURE
WILLIAM MC CLURE
*JOHN MC KEE
JOHN MC MASTER
HUMPHREY MONTGOMERY
JOHN MOORE
*JOHN NEVILLE
*PRESLEY NEVILLE
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
JOHN ORMSBY
JOSEPH PATTERSON
THOMAS PATTON
BENJAMIN PEARSOL
THOMAS PHILLIPS
JOHN POWERS
*JOHN REED
WILLIAM RICHMOND
WILLIAM SAMPLE
STEEL SAMPLE
THOMAS SCOTT
WILLIAM SEMPLE
NEHEMIAH SHARP
JOHN SHARP
JOHN SHIELDS
JOHN SMALL
ANDREW SPEAR
JOHN STEVENSON
JEREMIAH STURGEON
WILLIAM SUTHERLAND
WILLIAM TUCKER
*GABRIEL WALKER
ISAAC WALKER
GEORGE WALLACE
JOHN WILESON
JOHN WILKINS
SAMUEL WILSON
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