Earliest American Flintlocks

Anybody know any source information on the earliest American Flitnlock Rifles, like pictures and specifics??

Is the Edward Marshall Rifle from Pennsylvania the earliest complete example on record??

I wonder if there are any very early Jaeger type examples from America built by early German Gunsmiths here.

 

[LRB]

Shumways " RIFLES OF COLONIAL AMERICA" Vol. 1 has many examples.

 

[Dale]

You might want to pick up the book Colonial Frontier Guns by T.M. Hamilton. Some of the guns in this book date back to the trade era, before the gunsmiths were working here in Americal. Dale

 

[tg]

The above books are good sources the main problem is that there are few dated originals left the farther back you go, there are records of gunsmiths in the colonies in the late 17th and early 18th century, some feel that the earlier guns of colonial make may have been from the southern colonies, The Marshall gun is thought by some to be a restocked gun from an earlier period with the last work being done circa 1762 or later.