The following three images are from Charles Winthrop Sawyer's 1920 book "Our Rifles". They show a rifle that is marked "Jacob Rusily".
The next image is from the 1953 book "American Gunmakers", and references rifles marked Ruslin and Rusily. Given the difficulty of reading engraved script, I suspect they are intended to be engraved "Ruslin".
Plate 141 of Hetrick's book "The Bedford County Rifle and its Makers" shows a double rifle with mule ear hammers that is engraved with the name "John Jacob Rusley" somewhere, and is engraved "S. Spangler" on the rat tail-shaped lock plates. One of the 37-1/2-inch long octagonal barrels is 46 caliber and rifled, and the other is 50 caliber and smooth bored. The rifle is 53-1/2-inches long and weighs ten pounds. This rifle was attributed to Rusley by Hetrick and others, but now is attributed to Samuel Spangler. Likewise, there is a silver-mounted rifle that bears the Ruslin name that is now attributed to Samuel Spangler.
James B. Whisker's 2017 book "Gunsmiths of Somerset County, Pennsylvania" indicates that:
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