Trying to recreate a lost family rifle....

[Daveboone]

For many years my uncle had a 1/2 stock (striped maple) percussion rifle that had been in the family for at least several generations. No historical claim.
I was preparing to borrow with the intent of blue printing it to replicate it when it was stolen from his home never to be recovered (about twenty years ago). Unfortunately no pictures of it exist to my knowledge. I have a pretty clear recollection of it though...1/2 stock striped maple stock with brass nose cap, heavily curved butt plate, simple brass round patchbox, .45 caliber browned octagon bbl, percussion lock. I also remember clearly my dad pointing out in "New York State Gunmakers"(1951) pg50 that it was signed by the local gun maker H. Slocumb located in Homer NY, local to the family c. 1831-46.
I was browsing gun kits recently when I found Pecatonica's Leman 1/2 stock rifle, which had an amazing similiarity to what I recall.
Does anyone have any knowledge of Slocumb or samples of his rifles?
As well on a different note, I am eager to identify what would have been typical flintlock (1790-1820) rifles that would have been associated with the region-Central NY from Cortland/Syracuse east to the Mohawk Valley, where my family started to settle in the early 1800s.
Thanks to any and all info .

 

[user 48679]

My google-fu tells me that Hardin Slocum of Homer, NY, was active from about 1831 to about 1846.

Those dates for a cap gun not later converted from a rocklock suggests he was making guns on the cutting edge of the latest technology of the time.