Tom the Tinker, an anonymous whiskey rebel, allegedly, a farmer named John Hollcroft from Finleyville, Pennsylvania. Under the cover of night, Tom the Tinker distributed letters protesting the Whiskey tax and destroyed stills of people who agreed to pay it. "Hurrah for Tom the Tinker!" became a rallying cry of the Whiskey Rebellion. From: Sim Greene, a narrative of the whisky insurrection; being a setting forth of the memoirs of the late David Froman (1906)
R. T. Wiley
1906
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