27 August 2016


U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C. --- Letters Patent Number 12,795 dated 01 May 1855

BE IT KNOWN, that I, EBEN HOYT, Jr. of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk, and state of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Method of Constructing Shot and Shell, . . . . . . .etc.

An interesting historical piece of information.


No, not related to BOBBY HOYT ! !


Webb B.

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