Christopher Breidenhart

[spgordon]

I was at the Lancaster County Historical Society today and thought I'd look, among other things, at the inventory of goods taken after Christopher Breidenhart's death in 1789. He had been working as an innkeeper in the 1770s but also was recruited to do some gunsmith work in 1776. At his death, you'll see, he had some "Gunsmith tools," as well as "One New Riffle and eleven old guns." He also had an enslaved woman.

[VP]

Judging by the inventory he was pretty wealthy, must have done well with his inn.

VP

[Eric Kettenburg]

Fantastic work as usual Scott.  As I mentioned in the other thread - more and more information is popping up via publicly accessibly sites such as this, or online access to archival microfilm and photos.  I hear the death knell pealing loudly for the era of speculative bs presented as 'fact.'  We've all got to up our game.

I would love to see a rifle made by this guy.  I'll wager - speculatively - it was extremely professional.