Saturday, 25 June 2016
Thursday, 23 June 2016
The Oxford Companion to Beer Definition: The history of beer,
The Oxford Companion to Beer Definition: The history of beer,: The history of beer,: The Oxford Companion to Beer definition presented by Craft Beer & Brewing
Monday, 20 June 2016
"Once Upon a Time": Sutlers and Artisans
"Once Upon a Time": Sutlers and Artisans: The Drunk Tailor blog is great for the reenactor who is interested in learning some of the do's and don'ts of tailoring. Info...
Saturday, 18 June 2016
Wednesday, 15 June 2016
Nendick’s Pill: Selling Medicine in Rural Britain. A Link.
I just found this blog authored by Dr Alun Withey. I found it very interesting & I am following this blog.
Friday, 10 June 2016
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
Memoir of Robert Witherspoon 1730s.
Alert By Andrew Knez Jnr.
Memoir of Robert Witherspoon, A Scots-Irish family
settles
in South Carolina in the 1730s.
We were then put on board an open boat with
tools and a years provision and one still mill for each family. They allowed
each person over sixteen one ax, a broad ax, one narrow hoe. Our provisions
consisted of indian corn, rice, wheaten flour, beef, pork, rum and salt we were much distressed in
this part of our passage as it was the dead of winter and we were exposed to
the inclemency of the weather day and night and what added to the grief of all
pious persons on board was the Atheistical blasphemous mouths of our patrons
they brought us up as far as Potatoe Ferry on Black River, about twenty miles
from Georgetown and turned us on shore where we lay in Samuel Commander’s barn
for some time while the boat wrought her way up as far as the king’s tree with
the goods and provision.
The boat that brought up the goods arrived at the
Kingstree. The people were much oppressed in bringing their things as there was
no horse there, they were obliged to toil hard, as they had no other way but to
carry them on their back. The goods consisted of their bed-clothing chests
provision tools post &c. [etc. At that time there were no roads every
family had to travel the best they could, which was double distance to some for
their only guides were swamps and branches. After a time the men got sufficient
knowledge of the woods as to blaze paths, so the people learned to follow
blazes from place to place.
As the winter season advanced there was but a short time
for preparing land for planting — but the people were strong and healthy All
that could do anything wrought diligently and continued clearing and planting
as long as the season would admit. So they made provisions for that year. Their
beasts were few and as the range was good there was no need of feeding
creatures for some time to come.
The first thing my father brought from the boat was the
gun[,] one of queen Anne’s muskets,
loaded with swan shot. One morning while we were at breakfast a
travelling oppossum on his way passed the door. My mother screamed out there is
a great bear we hid behind some barrels at the other end of our hut Father got
his gun and steedied it on the fork that held up the end of the hut and shot
him about the hinder parts which caused poor opossum to grin and open his mouth
in a frightful manner. Father having mislaid his shot could not give it a
second bout, but at last ventured out and killed it with a pail.
Another thing which gave us great alarm
was the Indians when they came to hunt in the spring they were great in numbers
and in all places like the Egyptian locast but they were not hurtful. Besides
these things we had a great deal of trouble and hardships in our first
settling, but the few inhabitants were favored with health and strength. We
were also much oppressed with fear on divers other accounts, especially of
being massacred by the Indians, or bit by snakes, or torn by wild beasts, or of
being lost and perishing in the woods, of whom there were three persons who
were never found.
Monday, 6 June 2016
Australian Survival and Preppers..: Time To Take Back Australia.
Australian Survival and Preppers..: Time To Take Back Australia.: Election Special We have decisions to make and the 2 Million licenced Shooters in Australia are now 10% of the population. We togethe...
Sunday, 5 June 2016
"Once Upon a Time": "Once Upon A Time", in June
"Once Upon a Time": "Once Upon A Time", in June: Camp of the British 43rd Regiment during the siege of Fort Beauséjour On June 3, 1755, French & Indian War. The Siege of Fort Beauséjo...
The Cleaning Of A Muzzle-Loading Gun-Documentation.
"The Care and
Cleaning of Firelocks in the 18th Century: A Discussion of Period Methods and
Their Present Day Applications."
George Edie, A Treatise on English Shooting (London 1772)
(7-8) "When a person is master of a good Piece, the keeping it in proper
order is a main article in the doing execution with it: it is necessary the
inside of the barrel, the touch-hole, and the lock, be kept clean; and the
springs and moving parts of the lock properly oiled. The barrel should be
washed at least after every eighteen or twenty fires, where the best sort of
powder is used; but if the gun-powder is an inferior sort, then the barrel will
require oftener washing. The best method of washing a barrel is, by taking out
the britchpin; but as this can seldom be conveniently done, take the barrel out
of the stock, and put the britch- end in to a pail of warm water, leaving the
touch-hole open; then, with an iron rod, with tow or a bit of linen rag at the
end, draw up and down in the syringe manner, till it is quite clean; changing
the water, and rinsing the inside, as the foulness requires: when this is done,
it will be proper to put in a red-hot iron, of six or eight inches in length
(which any blacksmith will furnish), and move it up and down to dry any
remaining damp: the outside of the barrel should be well dried, and a little
oil rubbed over every time of cleaning." ________________
Thomas Simes, The Regulator: or Instructions to Form the
Officer and Complete the Soldier (London, 1780) “How to clean the Barrel. After
every firing day the barrel is to be washed, by taking it out of the stock, and
putting the breeching into water, leaving the touch hole open: then with an
iron ram-rod and worm, with a piece of tow or rag, draw up and down the barrel
till it becomes quite clean; when dry, rub it out with another piece of dry
rag, and the outside of the barrel with buff leather. The lock not to be taken
to pieces but when necessity requires it – and that is, when the trigger or
hammer goes stiff, or sounds unpleasant to the ear.”
