Interestingly, the Dupui general store ledger (over the course of fifty years), only records a single firearms sale -- a gun, sold to Joseph Haynie on 2 July 1755 for the price of 1 pound and 15 shillings.

The date of the sale was well before the outbreak of Indian hostilities in Northampton County.  It was also prior to the Penn's Creek massacre, prior to the massacre of Moravian missionaries at Gnadenhutten, and prior to the attack on Brodhead's plantation.  

Alas, even with the benefit of a gun, it doesn't appear that Joseph Haynie survived the French & Indian War experience.  His record of purchases at Dupui's store ends in July of 1755 (still owing 20 shillings towards the cost of his weapon), and his name cannot be located in any of the post-war records of the area's Dutch Reformed churches. 

So... what does a single gun sale in the span of fifty years tell us?  Did everyone in the region have a weapon or did no one have a weapon? 

For a clue, we can look to the sales of gunpowder and lead.  Unfortunately, there are only three sales of gunpowder recorded by just two individuals (all in 1744 and 1745) in the Dupui general store ledger.  Hendricus Varway bought a pound of gunpowder, Rulph Brink bought half a pound, and then later picked up some additional gunpowder and lead.  Varway would also later pick up "a Barr of Lead", while Brink would also obtain 3 lbs. of "Shott & a Barr of Lead".

While "small shott", on the other hand, was a commodity purchased at least a dozen times by a total of nine individuals (in quantities ranging from 2 to 6 lbs.), the last recorded sale in Dupui's ledger also transpired way back in 1744.  The data, especially the gunpowder data (as gunpowder, if routinely used, would regularly have to be re-supplied), forces one to conclude that the Northampton County territory was essentially a frontier that for the longest time was notably bereft of both guns and gunpowder. 

One can thus comprehend why the French & Indian War in this area was regarded as so horrific.