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Twenty-five years of brewing, with an illustrated history of American beer, dedicated to the friends of George Ehret (1891)

Ehret, George, 1835- · [New York, The Gast Lithograph & Engraving Company] · leaf 18

An illustration from Twenty-five years of brewing, with an illustrated history of American beer, dedicated to the friends of George Ehret, 1891, leaf 18 — to Governor Kieft the expediency of levying a tax upon beer, and lie imposed this all the more readily because, in consequence of the Indian War which he had provoked by a “ shocking massacre of savages,” the treasury was totally deple- ted. In 1644, he levied a tax of three guilders upon every tun…

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