“The consumption of Geneva or Gin in this country is extensive. It is not long since distilleries of it have grown up among us, to any importance. They are now becoming of consequence, but being still in their infancy, they require protection.” Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton to the United States House of Representatives, 5 December, 1791 New England is a region located in the northeast of the United States that encompasses the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Named by Captain John Smith in his 1614 glorified marketing pamphlet A Description of New England, he stated: “…of all the parts of the world I have yet seen not inhabited… I would rather live here than anywhere.”
Smith was wrong. Diverse groups of Algonquian…