Brong, Peter

Name Street Town State From To
Brong, Peter   Lancaster Pennsylvania 1794 1816


Patent Date Remarks
     


Contract for
? Contract for Model 1798 muskets
January 2, 1808 Contract for 800 pistols at $5 each, delivery in six month.


Product
He belongs to the Lancaster School

On January 2, 1792, Secretary of War Henry Knox asked General Edward Hand, who was living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania to contact for the first 1,000 rifles at 12$ each. The rifle should be .50 caliber with 42" rifled barrel, the lock to have a fly, with a patch box to be spring opened with abutton release. Additional 2,000 rifles were ordered and delivered in 1794. Finally the Government received 3,476 rifles made by different gunsmiths. The correspondence between Knox and Hand is published under - Gonter, Peter.
In 1794 Peter Brong contribued 5 rifles, on January 10, 17 and 20 one rifle each, and on March 13 two rifles.

Sold muskets to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under a 1797 act.

Maker of Kentucky style rifles and pistols.

From the information found in the National Archives it seems that the contract was for Brong, Guest and Henry. Which Guest and Henry I do not know. Delivered were:

January 13, 1809 - 65 Pistols
July 6, 1809 - 184 Pistols (inspector was Thomas Palmer)
July 8, 1809 - 66 Pistols
July 14, 1809 - 9 Boxes of Pistols
August 16, 1809 - 1 Box of Pistols
September 19, 1810 - 184 Pistols
totally - 499 Pistols & 11 Boxes