School: Maryland
Emmitsburg George Piper was born in 1783, a son of Peter Piper. He was bound on August 31, 1801, to John Armstrong to learn the gunsmith and lockmaking trade. After completing his apprenticeship he worked in York County, Pennsylvania. Peter Piper died in Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and left equal shares of his worldly goods to all his children except George. “He is not th have an equal share with my other children.” On 4 February an advertisement in the Adams County Sentinel offered a reward for a stolen rifle. The gun had been left at John Settel’s Gunshop for repairs but picked up under false pretenses by George Piper. The name of George Piper, gunsmith, appears on the tax lists of 1842-43 in Hopewell Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania. We do not know what happened to Piper thereafter. For further reference, see Arms Makers of Maryland. For additional information see Maryland Longrifles Hartzler/Whisker.
