Robert became a captain in the Cumberland country militia and served six or seven seasons of six months each, returning between each to grow corn and make whiskey. A captain of the Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution, after mustering out in March 1784, Robert moved his family and still to settle on their assigned land near the Bardstown area. In 1779 James and William Samuels claimed 60 acres of land in Kentucky on Robert Samuels Junior, their younger brother’s, behalf under the terms of the 1775 Virginia Corn and Cabbage Patch Act. Robert had three sons, James, William and Robert Samuels Junior. A copy of a tax bill dated 1779 from the Pennsylvanian colony for a 60 gallon still owned by Robert Samuels now hangs on the office wall at Maker’s Mark Distillery. Robert Samuels Senior became a farmer and rye distiller in south central Pennsylvania. Little is recorded about John Samuels Junior, the rector’s son but church records of his will show that part of the estate he left to his son Robert Samuels Senior included a whiskey still. was by members of this group of emigrants? John Samuels Junior Was it just coincidence that the first recorded distillation of a grain mash (rye) in what was to become the U.S.A.
In 1713, John travelled on the first shipload of Scottish Irish immigrants to America. In 1702/3 John moved to Londonderry in Northern Ireland as part of the movement to convert the Irish to Catholicism. The remains of an old gristmill from the period can still be seen there. The history of Maker’s Mark starts with John Samuels Senior who was a rector in the Church of Scotland at Samuelston, a small hamlet sixteen miles from Edinburgh, most noted for being where John Knock preached his first reformation speech. Marker’s Mark spelling without the ‘e’ celebrates the Samuels family’s Scottish heritage. Apparently the official American spelling is ‘whisky’ but the historic American spelling of ‘whiskey’ is tolerated and practically all other American distillers spell theirs with the "e". Maker's Mark is one of the few American whiskeys to be spelled, ‘whisky’ without an ‘e’. It might not flaunt it, but Maker’s Mark is aged for around a year longer than the four year minimum and it is no overstatement to say that Bill Samuels Senior established the premium bourbon category. In fact the bottle had no age statement on it at all. Initially, as an extended age statement did not justify its price position, it was a difficult sale. (See History)Īt the time of its launch, Maker’s Mark was sold at a premium price to other bourbons then on the market.
However, the family’s distilling roots stretch back eleven generations. The original 'premium' bourbon, Maker’s Mark has been lovingly built by three generations of the Samuels family. Maker’s Mark is the only bourbon distillery producing just one Brand of Bourbon.
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