Gunstocking Shop
25½ feet by 20 feet. Constructed of logs. One story. Built in 1763.
25½ feet by 20 feet. Constructed of logs. One story. Built in 1763.
1718-1802. Born near Suhl, Germany. Worked as a gunstocker and a music teacher at Christiansbrunn, 1759-1766.
1731-1791. Born in Henneberg, Germany. Worked as a gunstocker and a music teacher.
1749-1821. Born in Bethlehem. Worked in the gunshop, probably as a locksmith, during the Revolutionary War.
1757-1821. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Worked as a gunsmith.
1755-1797. Born in Bethlehem. Worked as a gun stocker and as distiller. Married the widow Elizabeth Smith in 1787 and lived with his wife in Christiansbrunn until they moved to Nazareth, where Levering worked as a tinker, a blacksmith, and (in the 1790s) a gun stocker.
1760-1821. Born in Bethabara, NC. Worked as a gun stocker. Entered, and crossed out, on 1781 tax preparation list.
1747-1777. Born in Fredericktown, Pennsylvania. Worked as a gunstocker.
1743-????. Born in Bethlehem. One of the first cohort of boys sent to Christiansbrunn in September 1757, assigned to learn to be a tailor. Later apprenticed as a gunstocker.
1758-1811. Born in Bethlehem. Worked as a gunsmith.