and Son on North Queen Street. The barrels were all made in the Leman's factory until about 1875, when he began to purchase these parts at Mohnsville, in lower Berks County. �Mr. Leman was well qualified as an overseer of his workmen, for he himself was an expert craftsman in all the branches of the

and rifling tools, etc. The half-ton of iron at £28 a ton, must have been bar iron,26 which, though it might have been imported, was probably first obtained at Rutter's Forge (1716), along the Manatawny Creek (now in Berks County), later at Pine, Pool or McCall's Forges (1725) along the same creek

Lancaster County. As Commissary of Hides for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland he established workshops in Phila- delphia, Lancaster, Allentown and elsewhere for making boots, shoes, hats, cartridge-cases, etc., for the army.24 He was a financier, as is shown by his being Fiscal Agent of the