Born March 4, 1733 died at Lancaster, August 18, 1821
Kentucky Rifles, U.S. Military
On 10 November 1775 the Lancaster Committee of Safety ordered the county's gunsmiths to devote all their
efforts in the immediate future to the manufacture of military-style muskets, and to suspend the manufacture
of the more difficult to manufacture long rifles. Michael Withers appeared in committee, and agreed to set
to work as soon as he hath completed a few guns which lie hath now in hand, and make muskets and bayonets for
this county, part of the number required from this county by the honorable House of Assembly, at the Philadelphia
prices; that he will confine himself and his workmen to that work and carry on the same as expeditiously as he
can, and that he will deliver [them] to the commissioners and assessors of this county or to this committee.
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