more on Joseph Perkin

[spgordon]

Kent, here's one:







There are hundreds of records regarding this facility scattered in the various reels of RG 27, most of them just specifying Dehaven's pay. Others, such as this one, provide more information.

[spgordon]

Here's a 1779 inventory of what the Gun lock factory contained when it closed--it quickly morphed from a gunlock factory to a general repair factory. In early 1777 Dehaven had “Nin[e]teen Men at Work in the Gun Way,” which, he hoped, would enable him “in a Short Time to Repair A Great Maney arms & Make Some New ones.”

[VP]

This is a great find, not surprisingly, I don’t know what some of these items are that are listed.
VP