Author Topic: 300 stand of arms sent to Allentown  (Read 684 times)

Offline spgordon

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300 stand of arms sent to Allentown
« on: July 15, 2023, 12:36:19 AM »
Here's an interesting invoice--which, if I understand it, documents some 300 stand of arms that were sent by the County Lieutenant of Philadelphia (Colonel William Henry [not the former Lancaster gunsmith William Henry]) to Allentown for repair.

At the same time, the County Lieutenant sent the invoice for this work to Pennsylvania's government (Council) in Lancaster to get paid.

Eric, I think this document suggests that that clerk, John Jacobson, must have been assigned to the Allentown factory itself, since he produces this document in Allentown. Or at least he accompanied the wagons full of arms up there.


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: 300 stand of arms sent to Allentown
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2023, 06:08:42 PM »
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Offline Eric Kettenburg

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Re: 300 stand of arms sent to Allentown
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2023, 02:21:07 PM »
Hey thanks for posting this!  I don't know how I missed it days ago.  It clearly was written at Allentown so I think your presumption about the clerk must be correct.  I'd like to think he was assigned there - surely there would have been a need for a clerk at the operation anyway, and in May 1778 I don't think anyone would have been operating out of the city of Philly itself since so much of everything had been moved up to Northampton and iirc the Brits didn't leave until June?
Strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government!