Schreyer, George

Name	Street	Town	State	From	To
Schreyer, George		Hanover area, York county	Pennsylvania	1739	1819

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George Schreyer was born in the Conewago, Pennsylvania community in 1739. His apprenticeship started in 1753 and was under either George Ungefehr or Nicholas Hachen and lasted until 1761. He is shown on Reading tax records as a gunsmith and apprenticed Phillip Sheets. It is believed that he produced about 650 guns until his dead in 1819. He was specially known to adapt a German hunting rifle developed in Lancaster County Information found in an the Daily Record Sunday News of January 25, 2005 He made flintlock rifles with octagonal barrels. He spell his name different ways on gun barrels as Schreyer, Schryer, Shroyer, Shyer or Schroyer

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George Schreyer was born in the Conewago, Pennsylvania community in 1739. His apprenticeship started in 1753 and was under either George Ungefehr or Nicholas Hachen and lasted until 1761.

He is shown on Reading tax records as a gunsmith and apprenticed Phillip Sheets.

It is believed that he produced about 650 guns until his dead in 1819. He was specially known to adapt a German hunting rifle developed in Lancaster County

Information found in an the Daily Record Sunday News of January 25, 2005

He made flintlock rifles with octagonal barrels. He spell his name different ways on gun barrels as Schreyer, Schryer, Shroyer, Shyer or Schroyer