Friday, 31 May 2013
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Period Woodworking Tools.
Diderot.
Brace and bit.
Bucksaw.
The auger and gimlet I made from some old brace bits.
Paring Ladder.
Pump Drill.
Making Rakes.
The stail is the long straight handle used on hoes and rakes. I make mine with a hatchet and drawing knife, but as you can see there is a stail engine.
This tine former can also be used for making wooden pegs for other construction work.
cornish woodland workshop: Laying the shingles
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
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Monday, 27 May 2013
The Passionate Apprentices - The Knifemaker [Part 1]
My thanks to my friend Mike for bringing this video to my attention.
Thanks Mike.
Regards, Keith.
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Edge of the Woods: Defining Heriot's Natives
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Friday, 24 May 2013
To Shave or Not To Shave. Beards in the 18th century.
There is a lot of talk on other forums and a lot of people have different opinions about whether people had beards in the 18th century or not. To me it has always seemed common sense that away from city fashions, a man did exactly what he wanted to do. So I do not get into arguments over this issue, and to the bitchy guy who said I do not portray a true woodsman because I have a beard, I say, absolutely nothing. Instead I will post my thoughts and findings here, and as I have already stated above, I think it always has been a matter of personal preference.
Quote: Twenty pounds reward
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Quote: Twenty pounds reward
Run away from... Alexandria, Fairfax County Virginia, a convict servant man,
named John Murphy, born in Ireland, about 28 Years of Age, by trade a joiner, a
low set fellow, about 5 feet 4 inches high, struts in his walk, has a pale
complexion, large black beard and eyebrows, wide mouth, and pleasant
countenance, sings extraordinarily well, having followed it in playhouses in
London, talks proper English, and that in a polite manner... It is imagined he
has forged a pass and likely will deny his name, trade and place of nativity.
NB All Masters of Vessels are forbid to take him off at their Peril. (August
1760)
17th century oil painting a bearded man with a young girl by Jacob Toorenvliet.
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Blackbeard (c. 1736 engraving used to illustrate Johnson's General History)
French school 18th century head_of_a_bearded_man.
Gaetano Gandolfi ,Study_of_a_Bearded_Man 1770
Johann Andreas Benjamin Nothnagel 18thc.
John Worley, 1624-1721 Painted 1705.
The Old Beggar , French School, 18th century Musee Bargoin.
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Thomas Gent, printer and author of the book depicted in his right hand, The Antient and Modern History of the Loyal Town of Rippon (published in 1733).
Voyage To Georgia. 1736-7. February. Final Page.
On the 23rd, Colonel Bull, one of his Majesty’s Council in Carolina, arrived here
in his own Perriagua, with Letters from the Lieutenant-Governor, Council and
Assembly of that Province for Mr. Oglethorpe. I
offered him the Ship’s great Cabbin, and all Provisions and Necessaries, but he refused it, having himself a Cabbin fitted
up with all Conveniences aboard his own Perriagua; howsoever he did us the
Favour to dine on board.
Nothing remarkable happened on board till Mr. Oglethorpe returned from
the Southward, which was on the 25th in the Evening. I had from one who went along with him, the
following Account.
The Scout-boat went along through Channels, between the Islands and the Main;
these Channels are in some Places above a Mile; these Channels are in some
Places above a Mile, and in others not above 200 Yards wide. In many
Places, the Woods of Pines, Evergreen-Oaks, and Cedar-Trees grow close to the
Water-Side, which with the clear sea-green Colour and Stillness of the
Channels, sheltered by the Woods, is very delightful to the Eye. In other
Places, on the Banks, are wide Marshes, so hard that Cattle feed upon them,
though at some of the very highest Spring-tides they are just covered with
Water. We passed between the Island of Wilmington and the Main;
upon the latter, we landed at one Mr. Lacy’s where 5 Gentlemen of 500 Acre
Lotts have built their Houses together, that they might be the more easily
fortified, which they are with Palisades well flanked with several Pieces of
Cannon. They with Masters and Servants make the Garrison, and in all
Times of Apprehension do regular Duty; one of the Masters, with Proportion of
Servants, mounting Guard each Night. They have cleared above 100 Acres of
Land round the Fort. They have Milk, Cattle, Hogs, Garden-stuff, and
Poultry in such Plenty, that they sent at different Times several Bushels of
Eggs down toFrederica.
Monday, 20 May 2013
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Kelly Briggs.
Keith H. Burgess the Primitive Fire Lighting book I bought from you is amazing.
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Sunday, 19 May 2013
Saturday, 18 May 2013
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Thursday, 16 May 2013
Longhunter: Martins Station
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A Voyage To Georgia. Part 12.
Begun the 15th of October, 1735.
Each Freeholder has a Lott in Town 60 Foot
by 90 Foot, besides which he has a Lott beyond the Common, of 5 Acres for a
Garden. Every ten Houses make a Tything, and to every Tything there is a
Mile Square, which is divided into
1735-6.
February. Savannah.
12 Lotts, besides Roads: Each Free-holder
of the Tything has a Lott or Farm of 45 Acres there, and two Lotts are reserved
by the Trustees in order to defray the Charge of the Publick. The Town is
laid out for two hundred and forty Freeholds; the Quantity of Lands necessary
for that Number is 24 Square Miles; every 40 Houses in Town make a Ward, to
which 4 Square Miles in the Country belong; each Ward has a Constable, and
under him 4 Tything Men. Where the Town-Lands end, the Villages begin;
four Villages make a Ward without, which depends upon one of the Wards within
the Town. The Use of this is, in case a War should happen, that the
Villages without may have Places in the Town, to bring their Cattle and
Families into for Refuge, and to that Purpose there is a Square left in every
Ward; big enough for the Out-wards to encamp in. There is Ground also
kept round about the Town ungranted, in order for the Fortifications, whenever
Occasion shall require. Beyond the Villages, commence Lotts of 500 Acres;
these are granted upon Terms of keeping 10 Servants, Etc. Several
Gentlemen who have settled on such Grants have succeeded very well, and have
been of great Service to the Colony. Above the Town is a Parcel of Land
called Indian Lands; these are those reserved by King Toma Chi Chi for his People. There is near the
Town, to the East, a Garden belonging to the Trustees, consisting of 10 Acres;
the Situation is delightful, one half of it is upon the Top of a Hill, the Foot
of which the River Savannah washes, and from it you see the Woody Islands in the Sea. The Remainder of the
Garden is the Side and some plain low Ground at the Foot of the Hill, where
several fine Springs break out. In the Garden is variety of Soils; the
1735-6.
February. Savannah.
Top is sandy and dry, the Sides of the
Hill are Clay, and the Bottom is a black rich Garden-Mould well watered.
On the North-part of the Garden is left standing a Grove of Part of the old
Wood, as it was before the arrival of the Colony there. The Trees in the
Grove are mostly Bay, Sassafras, Evergreen Oak, Pellitory, Hickary, American Ash, and the Laurel Tulip. This last is looked upon as one of the
most beautiful Trees in the World; it grows straight-bodied to 40 or 50 Foot
high; the Bark smooth and whitish, the Top spreads regular like an Orange-tree
in English Gardens, only larger; the Leaf is like that of a common Laurel, but
bigger, and the under-side of a greenish Brown: It blooms about the Month
of June; the Flowers are white, fragrant like the Orange, and perfume all the
Air around it; the Flower is round, 8 or 10 Inches diameter, thick like the
Orange-flower, and a little yellow near the Heart: As the Flowers drop,
the Fruit, which is a Cone with red Berries, succeeds them. There are
also some Bay-trees that have Flowers like the Laurel, only less.
The Garden is laid out with Cross-walks planted with Orange-trees, but the last
Winter, a good deal of Snow having fallen, had killed those upon the Top of the
Hill down to their Roots, but they being cut down sprouted again, as I saw when
I returned to Savannah. In the Squares between the Walks,
were vast Quantities of Mulberry-trees, this being a Nursery for all the
Province, and every planter that desires it, has young Trees given him gratis from this Nursery. These white Mulberry-trees were planted in
order to raise Silk, for which Purpose several Italians were brought,
at the Trustee’s Expense, from Piedmont by Mr. Amatis; they have fed
Worms, and wound Silk to as great Perfection as any that ever came out of Italy: But the Italians falling out, one of them stole away the
Machines for winding, broke the Coppers, and spoiled all the Eggs, which he
could not steal, and fled to South-Carolina. The others, who continued
faithful, had saved but a few Eggs when Mr. Oglethorpe arrived,
therefore he forbade any Silk should be wound, but that all the Worms should be
suffered to eat through their Balls, in order to have more Eggs against next
Year. The Italian Women are obliged to takeEnglish Girls Apprentices, whom they teach to wind
and feed; and the Men have taught our English Gardeners to
tend the Mulberry-trees, and our Joyners have learned how to make the Machines
for winding. As the Mulberry-trees increase, there will be a great
Quantity of Silk made here.
Besides the Mulberry-trees; there are in some of the Quarters in the coldest
part of the Garden, all kinds of Fruit-trees usual in England, such as Apples, Pears, etc. In another Quarter are Olives, Figs,
Vines, Pomegranates and such Fruits as are natural to the warmest Parts of Europe. At the bottom of the Hill, well sheltered from the North-wind,
and in the warmest part of the Garden, there was a Collection of West-India Plants and Trees, some Coffee, some
Cocoa-nuts, Cotton, Palma-christi, and several West-Indian physical
Plants, some sent up by Mr Eveleigh a publick-spirited Merchant at Charles-Town, and some by Dr. Houstoun, from the Spanish
West-Indies, where he was
sent at the Expence of a Collection raised by that curious Physician SirHans Sloan, for to collect and send them to Georgia, where the
Climate was capable of making a Garden which might contain all kinds of Plants;
to which Design his Grace the Duke ofRichmond, the Earl of Derby, the Lord Peters and the Apothecary’s Company contributed
very generously; as did Sir Hans himself. The Quarrels amongst the Italians proved fatal to most of these Plants, and they were labouring to repair
that Loss when I was there, Mr. Miller being employ’d in the room of Dr. Houstoun, who died in Jamaica. We heard he had wrote an Account
of his having obtain’d the Plant from whence the trueBalsamum Capivi is drawn; and that the was in hopes of
getting that from whence the Jesuits Barks is taken, he designing for that Purpose to
send to the Spanish West
Indies.
There is a Plant of Bamboo Cane brought from the East Indies, and sent over
by Mr. Towers, which thrives well. There was also
some Tea-seeds, which came from the same Place; but the latter, though great
Care was taken, did not grow.
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Saturday, 11 May 2013
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Thursday, 9 May 2013
Working on a Wigwam for a Winter Shelter.
I thought it was about time I did some more experimenting with a different type of shelter, so I decided to make a Wigwam. These images show just the framework, later I will have to pull it apart & move it to a winter camp site in the forest. Then I will cover the framework and take more photos.
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A Voyage to Georgia; Part 11.
Begun the 15th of October, 1735.
Those who have cleared their 5 Acre Lotts,
have made a very great Profit out of them by Greens, Roots and Corn.
Several have improv’d the Cattle they had at first, and have now 5 or 6 tame
Cows; others, who to save the Trouble of Feeding
1735-6.
February. Savannah.
them, let them go into the Woods, can
rarely find them, and when they are brought up, one of them will not give half
the Quantity of Milk, which another Cow fed near Home will give. Their
Houses are built at a pretty large Distance from one another, for fear of Fire;
the Streets are very wide, and there are great Squares left at proper
Distances, for Markets and other Conveniences. Near the River-side there
is a Guard-house inclosed with Palisades a Foot think, where there are 19 or 20
Cannons mounted, and a continual Guard kept by the Free-holders. This
Town is governed by 3 Bailiffs, and has a Recorder, Register, and a Town Court,
which is holden every six Weeks, where all Matters Civil and Criminal are
decided by grand and petty Juries, as in England; but there are
no Lawyers allowed to plead for Hire, nor no Attornies to take Money, but (as
in old times in England) every Man pleads his own Cause. In
case it should be an Orphan, or one that cannot speak for themselves, there are
Persons of the best Substance in the Town, appointed by the Trustees to take
care of the Orphans, and to defend the Helpless, and that without Fee or
Reward, it being a Service that each that is capable must perform in his
Turn. They have some Laws and Customs peculiar to Georgia; one is, that all Brandies and distilled Liquors are prohibited under
severe Penalties; another is, that no Slavery is allowed, nor Negroes; a Third,
that all Persons who go among the Indians must give
Security for their good Behavior; because theIndians, if any Injury is
done to them, and they cannot kill the Man who does it, expect Satisfaction
from the Government, which if not procured, they break out into War, by killing
the first white Man they conveniently can. No Victualler or Alehouse-keeper
can give any Credit so consequently
1735-6.
February, Savannah.
cannot recover any Debt. The
Free-holds are all entailed, which has been very fortunate for the Place.
If People could have sold, the greatest part, before they knew the Value of
their Lotts, would have parted with them for a trifling Condition, and there
were not wanting rich Men who employed Agents to Monopolize the whole Town: And
if they had got Numbers of Lotts into their own Hands, the other Free-holders
would have had no Benefit by letting their Houses, and hardly of Trade, since
the Rich, by means of a large Capital, would underlet and undersell, and the
Town must have been almost without Inhabitants, as Port Royal in Carolina is, by the best
Lotts being got into a few Hands.
The mentioning the Laws and Customs leads me to
take notice that Georgia is founded upon Maxims different from
those on which other Colonies have been begun. The Intention of that
Colony was an Asylum to receive the Distressed. This was
the charitable Design, and the governmental View besides that, was, with
Numbers of free white People, well settled, to strengthen the southern Part of
the English Settlements on the Continent of America, of which this
is the Frontier. It is necessary therefore not to permit Slaves in such a
Country, for Slaves starve the poor Labourer. For if the Gentleman can
have his Work done by a Slave who is a Carpenter or a Bricklayer, the Carpenter
or Bricklayers of that Country must starve for want of Employment, and so of
other Trades.
In order to maintain many People, it was proper that the Land should be divided
into small Portions, and to prevent the uniting them by Marriage
1735-6.
February. Savannah.
or Purchase. For every Time that two
Lotts are united, the Town Loses a Family, and the Inconveniency of this shews
itself at Savannah, notwithstanding the Care of the Trustees
to prevent it. They suffered the Moiety of the Lotts to descend to the Widows
during their Lives: Those who remarried to Men who had Lotts of their own, by
uniting two Lotts made one be neglected; for the strength of Hands who could
take care of one, was not sufficient to look to and improve two. These
uncleared Lotts are a Nusance to their Neighbours. The Trees which grow
upon them shade the Lotts, the Beasts take shelter in them, and for want of
clearing the Brooks which pass thro’ them, the Lands above are often prejudiced
by Floods. To prevent all these Inconveniences, the first Regulation of
the Trustees was a strict Agrarian Law, by which all the Lands near Towns
should be divided, 50 Acres to each Freeholder. The Quantity of Land by
Experience seems rather too much, since it is impossible that one poor Family
can tend so much Land. If this Alottment is too much, how much more
inconvenient would the uniting of two be? To prevent it, the Trustees
grant the Lands in Tail Male, that on the expiring of a Male-Line they may
regrant it to such Man, having no other Lott, as shall be married to the next
Female Heir of the Deceased, as is of good Character. This manner of
Dividing, prevents also the Sale of Lands, and the Rich thereby monopolizing
the Country.
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