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APPENDIX 5: SHOULDER ARMS KNOWN IMPORTED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION Notes: This summaryincludes and expands the information in Arcadi Gluckman's Identify ing Old U.S. Muskets, Rifles and Carbines, 44-45. a Possibly Dutch or Liege muskets. Wrecked off Cape May. The muskets shown were salvaged. c French Model 1763 muskets. Listed as rampart muskets. e Twenty-five thousand muskets were imported for Massachusetts with this cargo. These muskets were imported for Massachusetts. g Probably in mid-June, the Marquis de Lafayette landed first in Georgetown, South Carolina. This is the date of the invoice. 1 Listed as rampart muskets. Ship Captain Date Sailed Port of Date of Arrival Port of Arrival Muskets Fusils Carbines Departure Unknown Feb. 1776 Connecticut 3,000a Unknown Rotterdam Feb. 1776 Williamsburg, Va. 2,100a Wild Duck Tibbett Feb. 1776 Philadelphia 300 Nancy June, 1776 (b ) 191b Mr. Gibbs'Ship Aug. 1,1776 Philadelphia 1,100 Poily^ Mermahue Aug. 12, 1776 Philadelphia 80 Marquis of Kildare Oct. 4, 1776 Portsmouth, N.H. 250C Hancock & Adams Nov. 1776 Bedford, Mass. 3,000 Mercuryr Brest Mar. 17, 1777 Portsmouth, N.H. 11,987 Sally Stocker Mar. 24, 1777 Philadelphia 11,000 Amphitrite Apr. 20, 1777 Portsmouth, N.H. 12,000d Mary Elizabeth Young Mar. 12, 1777 Nantes May 20, 1777 Sinnexpuxent, Md. 7,000 Penet Chapman Apr. 26, 1777 Nantes June 11, 1777 Portsmouth, N.H. 13,333e Massachusetts8 Fish June 5, 1777 Nantes July 12, 1777 Marblehead, Mass. 1,500 Victoire11 Lafayette May 1777 Marseilles July 1777 Philadelphia^ 250 Flamand Dec. 1, 1777 Portsmouth, N.H. 3,000 1,100 Dutchess d'Grammont Poidras Jan. 8, 1778b Nantes June 20, 1778 Portsmouth, N.H. l^OO1 775 Providence11 July 25, 1778 Nantes 50QJ 250J General Arnold Sept. 1, 1778 Nantes 400k Revenge Feb. 1779 Philadelphia 1,666 Batchlor Homes Apr. 28, 1780 Philadelphia 680 59 Alliancev Landais Mar. 15, 1780 Nantes Aug. 16, 1780 Boston 2J331 L'Arielw J.P.Jones July 20, 1780m Nantes 4,425n Cibelle Paris May 27, 1781 Brest Aug. 1781 Boston 13,200 32° Douguey Trovin Mallot June 15, 1781 Brest 3,621 Resolve & Limpe Laurens Aug. 1781 Boston 13,179 Americax May 6, 1783 6,266 64 Total Known Imports 117,661? 155 2,125 b d f h J Possible Dutch arms. Sixteen cases of arms estimated at twenty-five muskets per case. Imported for Virginia. See "Foreign Arms Procured by Individual Colonies." m This ship was loaded between July 18 and 20. n These are described as "New Muskets, complete" and had been stored in the French Magazineat Port Louis. 0 Specifically identified as officers' fusils. p Although this summary documents only 10,021 musketsreceived during 1776,it isknown that 30,000muskets had been shipped from France by October 10, 1776. It also does not include the 15,000 muskets purchased by Benjamin Franklin for Massachusetts and delivered in 1775. q Brig. r Packet ketch built in Plymouth, Massachusetts. s Privateer brig belonging to Massachusetts. r Two-hundred-twenty-ton merchant ship mounting cannon, with a crew of thirty. The Marquisde Lafayette paid 30,000 livresfor it. u Twenty-eight-gun frigate built by Sylvester Bowens at Providence, Rhode Island. v Frigate designed and built by William Hackett at Salisbury Point, Massachusetts, on the Merrimac River. Launched in 1777. Fitted out in Boston. Was equipped with twenty-eight 12-pound cannon on the gun deck and twelve 9-pound cannon on the forecastle and quarterdeck. w A sloop or brig mounting twenty cannon borrowed from France in 1779. x Frigate designed byWilliam Hackett. Laid down in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in May 1777 and launched on November 5, 1782. APPENDIX 5 485 k l ...

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