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Offline Shreckmeister

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Samuel States / Easton PA
« on: August 20, 2012, 07:01:09 PM »
Does anyone have information on this maker.  I understand one of his rifles is in the book
Behold the Longrifle Again.  Would appreciate it if someone with the book could put the info
about it along with a photo of the patchbox on the rifle up on the site or email to me.
Also, does anyone know former KRA president Lawrence Kafka.  I would like to get in touch
with him.
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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 08:58:22 PM »
Check your KRA handbook for Mr. Kafkas' contact info.

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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2012, 01:31:11 AM »
In the daybooks from the Boulton Gun Works (preserved in the Henry Family Papers at Hagley Museum and Library, Delaware), States's name appears often as a customer between 1819 and 1830. One Boulton ledger, which covers 1819-22, also records all of States's purchases in those years. He seems to have purchased barrels and locks, as well as finished guns.

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Check out: The Lost Village of Christian's Spring
https://christiansbrunn.web.lehigh.edu/
And: The Earliest Moravian Work in the Mid-Atlantic: A Guide
https://www.moravianhistory.org/product-page/moravian-activity-in-the-mid-atlantic-guidebook

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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2012, 02:05:35 AM »
"Arms Makers Of Pennsylvania " by  Mr. Whisker.   Samuel States ( b1797)  born in Bucks Co. 1821-1850, Lackawanna Co. 1850.   JIM
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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2012, 04:47:39 AM »
Photo is in Behold, the Longrifle by Chandler and Whisker.
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Re: Samuel States / Philadelphia
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2012, 05:04:35 AM »
Thanks Mark.  Learned from Mr. Kafka that Samuel States was apprentice to J. Young in Easton
PA. 
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