Laws of the State of Delaware from the Fourteenth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Eighteenth Day of August One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Seven: In Two Volumes (New-Castle, DE: Printed by Samuel and John Adams, 1797), 1136-1137. Chapter 36—An Act for Establishing the Militia in this State, § 4. Passed June 18, 1793

Abstract

Required all citizens enrolled in the militia to arm themselves, within six months, with a good musket or firelock, a bayonet, belt, two spare flints, a knapsack, a pouch, and a box to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges and gunpowder suited to the bore of his gun, or twenty cartridges and a quarter-pound of gunpowder.