Directory of Lancaster, 1905-06, p. 367. 21. Inventory X-1-75, Lancaster County Historical Society Archives. 22. Bryson's 1843, p. 32. 23. Ellis (Franklin) and Evans (Samuel) History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Phila- delphia: Everts & Peck, 1883. Although Stacy Wood has written about gunsmiths

origin of the Pennsylvania rifle. During the 1970s several local historians challenged Beck's conclusions, basing the challenge primarily on their analyses of legal records such as deeds, wills, and inventories. They felt that the lack of legal records showing Mylin as a gunsmith negated the oral