[TheForge] Opportunity

[PlumDon at aol.com]

A most excellent opportunity has arisen  and noted in the Maryland Herald. 
Please apply as indicated. This was recently  reprinted in an abstract.



Maryland Herald
December 28  1804

Location: Hagerstown, Md. 
Page/Column: 4/3 

Description:  Workmen Wanted


Brunswick Forges, Slitting Mill and Cloverdale  Furnace

Wanted Immediately, a number of hands acquainted with working at  forges and 
pig iron works; forgemen in particular will be paid $7.50 per ton for  making 
anconies and $5.80 for drawing bar-iron. Forges in good order – A good  
slitter, a few Blacksmiths, Lock, Sickle, Scythe, and Screw Auger makers,  Wagoners 
and Colliers will also meet with the greatest encouragement. Apply to  the 
subsriber near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. THOMAS LANG, August  13, 
1804.

[Transcriber’s Note: Here is a definition of the term “Ancony”  - The short 
thick wrought or malleable iron bar stock produced in a finery from  shingled 
iron prior to being sent to the chafery for shaping into special sizes  
suitable for colonial era production of iron tools and artifacts. Anconies were  two 
to three feet long with knobbed or square ends.] 
Anyone know what  shingled iron is?
Regards Don Plummer  




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