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But ninety-one years later, when money was dollars, rum seems to have been current in Charlestown. Some one has styled it ‘Everlasting Rum.’

Charlestown, April 6, 1793.
This day Rec'd of Benj n Wright one Glass of Cherry Rum in full of all Demands from the beginning of the World to the end of the World I say


It seems Mr. Reed's confidence was not misplaced, and the Wyman-Wright accounts effectually closed.

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