Originally Posted by
Grn Mt Man
Jeff,
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Your flintlock surely fills that quote. Somewhere in all my trash & treasures I have either an English or French gun flint, can't remember which, that I found many years ago while digging in a field next to the James River near Buchanan, VA. This is a very historical area and has yielded many archaelogical finds over the years. The find was in the vicinity of the last outpost on the frontier if you were headed west/southwest, established in 1742 by a Robert Looney. He built a mill, an "ordinary" and operated a ferry across the James River. It was also the site of a Fort called Fort Fauquier completed about 1758. Seems like it would be prophetic if it was once again used in a flintlock. if I can find it and you'd like to have it would be happy to forward it to you.
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