Quote Originally Posted by Breukelen advocaat
My ??Fathers? did not give, or sell, alcohol to the Native Americans. It was illegal in New England. My 8th great grandfather was Isaac Chase (1660-1727), a Quaker who owned the first tavern in Martha??s Vineyard. The law was spelled out very clearly, dated March 26. 1677-8, ??Isaack Chase of Holmses hole is admitted to keep a publike house of Entertainment & to sell liquor &c by Retail except to the Indians and this to continue for two years at ten shillings per annum.?
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Another ancestor of mine owned a Tavern in colonial Nantucket. His name was Tristram Coffin (1605-1681), and he and his wife Dionis Stevens Coffin (1610 ?? 1690), were my 10th great grandparents. Dionis was in charge of brewing the beer, and she was summoned to appear in court in 1653 - not for selling liquor to the Indians, but for charging more than the law allowed for beer. The reason the beer cost more was because it was brewed stronger than average:

1653, Sep: Summoned before the magistrate for selling beer at her ordinary for 3 pence in violation of a law passed by the General Court in 1645, which yearly sets the price at 2 pence. She testified that she charged more because she made a heavier brew, making it with 6 bushels of malt to each hogshead instead of 4 bushels as the law stipulated, and that the General Court had allowed for that 2 years before. Samuel Moore testified in her behalf and the case was dismissed. Goodwife COFFIN is said to have remarked, "I'll have better beer than my neighbors and be paid for it. A fig for the law."
so sad, you think that because your family only enjoyed the fruits of the land rape, that you bare no responsibility for it,
what toad shit.
listen washitsu, you and all your brethren are responsible for the rape and desecration of countless natives and their lands. now you rape and pillage more natives across the water for your ignorance and greed, you now slaughter babies for oil.