Identification Request: Sutton Percussion Musket

[PhilD]

Hello everyone; new member here. I have been asked to help identify a friend's wallhanger smoothbore musket, and old muzzleloaders are totally outside my wheelhouse. I'm hoping there are some old hands here who can give me some info. Here we go: Pictures attached. Barrel length from nipple to muzzle is 42.5 inches. Overall length from buttplate to muzzle is 58 inches. Bore diameter is 0.722 inches at the muzzle crown.

I THINK it's one of the flintlock-percussion conversions that were done in the first half of the 1800's, but like I said, this is not my area of expertise. Hopefully someone here will lend me a hand.

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

Your friend has a US 1808 contract musket made by Asa Waters of Sutton, Mass. The condition appears to be NRA Antique VG. The barrel was originally 44 to 44.5 inches long, so this one has lost 1.5 to two inches from the muzzle after leaving service, possibly at the same time it was converted to percussion by a civilian gunsmith.