I thought an artificer set the time fuse for exploding shells fired from cannon? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathleen Lynch" <kslynch62@hotmail.com> To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Census online developments When he served in the War of 1812, he was an "artificer" or gunsmith, as noted on his pay warrant.

Cathi is right, "artificer" is a firing team position. (he fires the cannon) however an artificer is also a term for someone who makes what is needed, ( think engineer or Jack of all trades). But in this case I think the firing team definition is what applies. Jeff Cathi Clore Frost wrote: > I thought an artificer set the time fuse for exploding shells fired from > cannon? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kathleen Lynch" <kslynch62@hotmail.com> > To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 8:08 AM > Subject: Re: [InMontgo] Census online developments > > > When he served in the War of 1812, he was an "artificer" or gunsmith, as > noted on his pay warrant. > > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG "In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them." -- Joseph Story (Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833) Reference: Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 191.