Gunlock Manufactory

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Gunlock Manufactory		Frederick-Town	Pennsylvania	1776

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This was a state owned gun manufacturing facility. They bought gun parts and barrels from local iron workers. Probably they manufactured also swords and bayonets. Archives of Maryland Journal of the Maryland Convention July 26 to August 14, 1775 Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776 C. S. J. Wednesday 19 June 1776. Ordered That the Supervisors of the Gunlock Manufactory in Frederick Town deliver to Captain Stricker all the Gunlocks which are compleat at the said Manufactory.

Product

This was a state owned gun manufacturing facility. They bought gun parts and barrels from local iron workers. Probably they manufactured also swords and bayonets.

Archives of Maryland
Journal of the Maryland Convention July 26 to August 14, 1775
Journal and Correspondence of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 29, 1775 to July 6, 1776

C. S. J. Wednesday 19 June 1776.
Ordered That the Supervisors of the Gunlock Manufactory in Frederick Town deliver to Captain Stricker all the Gunlocks which are compleat at the said Manufactory.