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Nathan, Moll

School: Northampton/Lehigh (Pennsylvania/PA) Nathan Moll School: Northampton/Lehigh Nathan Moll (1814 – 1882) was the younger brother of John Jr., Peter, and David Moll. After learning the trade from his brother, John Jr., in Allentown, Nathan first moved to Lower Saucon Valley in the mid – late 1830’s. Later he moved south of Quakertown to Rock […]

Rizer, George, II

School: Maryland Cumberland He was born about 1790 a son of George I. Joshua Devou was bound to him on May 16, 1819, to learn the blacksmith trade as was Charles Bennett on December 15 of the same year. His personal assets are recorded in Cumberland – Its Foundation and Growth as being $200.00. He was […]

Heckert, Philip

School: York (Pennsylvania/PA) Philip Heckert was a barrelmaker and gunsmith in York, PA during and immediately after the Revolutionary period. From an 1806 handwritten account: “Fire, the bore mill, burnt in 1800, it was a little more than a mile from town, near the little bridge on the Baltimore turnpike, now, this mill was useful […]

Haga, Wolfgang

School: Berks (Pennsylvania/PA) The legendary Wolfgang Haga was a gunsmith working in Reading according to a land grant dated 1767. Further tax records show him still working in Reading in1779. No signed guns by Haga have been found, yet rifle design attributed to Haga set the standard for the Berks County style with later gunmakers […]

Fisher, Henry

School: Maryland Frederick “I humbly beg the favour of you, to send me a Certificate to Exempt me and my People of the Militia Duty, by the Bearer M. Abraham – For which there Names is Jacob Reaser, Thomas Lawrence, Jacob Dunkle, Henry Fisher, Woodward Evitt, my Prentice is out now to Guard the Prisoners […]