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LeFever, Isaac

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lampeter Township, 1731-1736

Henry, John, 2nd

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1770-1772

Pannebecker, Daniel

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Cocalico Township 1828-1831

Dreppert, John

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) John Dreppert (Dreppard) worked as a gunsmith and gun lock maker in Lancaster and appears on tax records from 1837-1864. Many guns built by other men carry the name Dreppert on the lock.

Metzger, Philip

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gun Lock Maker, Lancaster Boro., 1814-1816

White, Job

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Little Britain Township, 1840

Johnson, William

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1838

Henry, Abraham

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Abraham Henry (1728-1811, son of William Henry, Sr., trained in Nazareth and then built guns in Lancaster. He was an important maker of government contract arms, one of a cartel of makers from Lancaster and York who supplied the military with arms, and a builder of fine flintlock longrifles.

Fondersmith, Louis

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Strasburg Township, 1803

Shunk, Isaac

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1810-1811

Feree, Joel

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Leacock Township, 1758-1775

DeHuff, Henry

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1771-1807

Haeffer, John (Brother)

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Lancaster Boro., 1803

Fetter, Peter

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) Gunsmith, Elizabeth Township, 1837-1850

Bender, John

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School: Lancaster (Pennsylvania/PA) John Bender (b. 1782) appears on county records from 1809-1816 as a gunsmith working in the city of Lancaster, PA. In 1809 he was one of a group of gunsmiths, including Jacob Dickert and John Gonter, who sent a letter to the government requesting payment for an overdue account related to guns […]