Gunsmiths of the Carolinas - 1660-1870

by James Biser Whisker

The Edwin Mellen Press
Lewiston/Wueenston/Lampeter

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Peacock, Thomas. Gunsmith. 1751, Charleston, South Carolina. On 6 November 1750 Thomas Peacock, Gunsmith, leased a lot and house in Charleston. On 6 November 1751 Thomas Peacock, gunsmith, bought a lot from John George, bricklayer, for £175. (Land Records, part 24, book II-MM; M.E.S.D.A.; Mackintosh; Kauffman, Early American Gunsmiths, p.74)