The stamped signature is virtually identical to the illustrated signature on a curly maple stocked Gabriel McInturff rifle shown in Jerry Noble's "Notes on Southern Longrifles Vol. 3. Gabriel S. McInturff was born in Washington Co., TN in 1805, and worked there as a gunsmith where he was recorded in 1838 as a road-overseer, according to Jerry Noble's research in Vol. I. The area later became Unicoi County.
Shelby Gallien