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OWNED and Officered by. . .I would suggest that if one were interested in knowing who owned private cannons during the revolution, one need only look as far as the "privateers" that were used. By definition, they were private owners of cannons. A couple of links to get you started:When he carried it off the battlefield, who did it belong to?
The Militia and the city of New Boston..
Which one carried it away from the battle?
The militia, or the city of Boston.
and how about the other privately owned cannons of the time?
Did they also belong to the militia, or a local city?
You lost this argument about 4 hours ago.
Why are you still responding?
Really, because maybe I am missing it, but I have yet to see where you documented private ownership of cannons. I mean other than people like Blackbeard, well I don't think you can. Old Molly is not going to get it, she is like all the other cannons of the time. Mostly captured and always owned by the community militia. Come on, how big a crew did a three pounder require if deployed on land? Not like you could lung one around on your horse.
How about this, what happened to all the artillery after the Revolutionary War? Did they auction them off as government surplus or something? How did these private citizens get these cannons? Did the moonshiners forge them in their forges? And what did these private citizens use these private cannons for, to call the workers in for supper? You got some newspaper articles or something. Like Old Man McDonald kills cattle rustlers with his three pounder.
The American Revolution
Privateers or Merchant Mariners help win the Revolutionary War
Privateer - Wikipedia
From the last link "Since robbery under arms was common to seaborne trade, all merchant ships were already armed." What do you think they were armed with? Arrows?
pri·va·teer
ˌprīvəˈtir/
noun
historical
plural noun: privateers
- 1.
an armed ship owned and officered by private individuals holding a government commission and authorized for use in war, especially in the capture of enemy merchant shipping.
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