This hunt & video was made by one of our group members & good friend of mine Mopoke, also known as Mick. I must stress that this deer was shot for food, not for the fun of it or for the antlers. Though knowing Mick as I do, I know he will be making good use of the antler & hide as well as the meat for his family table.
Well done Mick, first class.
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY, HISTORICAL TREKKING, AND PERIOD WILDERNESS LIVING.
A LIVING HISTORY BLOG.
18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.
Monday 30 July 2012
Hunting for Meat, 18th century Style. Video.
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Australia
Victoria, Australia
Sunday 29 July 2012
Quote-Australia.
“The women make string out of bark with astonishing facility,
and as good as you can get in England, by twisting and rolling it in a
curious manner with the palm of the hand on the thigh. With this they
make nets ... These nets are slung by a string round their forehead, and
hang down their backs, and are used like a work-bag or reticule. They
contain all the articles they carry about with them, such as fishing
hooks made from oyster or pearl shells.”
- From the diary of an early 18th century settler in the Port Stephens area.
Port Stephens NSW Australia.
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Militia Supplies.
French Militia 1750 By Francis Back.
Following
is a list of supplies issued to a French and Indian raiding party in the winter
of 1747, which was led by Commander Boucher de Niverville. This list has been,
in part, re-translated by the author
.
Supplies for the six militia men:
6 pounds of gunpowder in bags of one eighth of an ell
12 pounds of lead in bags
6 butcher knives
6 flint and steel with tinderbox and tinder
6 awls
36 musket flints 6 tumplines
6 bearskins
6 deerskins weighing 17 pounds
6 pair of ox hide shoes
6 tomahawks
4 ells of mazamet in 6 pairs of mittens and 6 pairs of ƒocks
6 cotton shirts
6 pairs of snowshoes
6 toboggans
6 pairs of ice creepers
6 pounds of tobacco
The New World Woodsman. His clothing, tools and
accoutrements By Keith H. Burgess.
Saturday 28 July 2012
18th Century Travel & Settlement in the New World.
18th
Century Travel in the New World.
“When one travels on the roads, one
constantly travels in bush or forest.
Occasionally, there is a house and several miles down the road there is
another house.”
John W. Kleiner and Helmut T. Lehman, The
Correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg, Volume 1, 1740-1747, (Picton
Press, Camden, ME, 1986) 118; hereafter cited as Muhlenberg Correspondence.
“…lost their way several times and had to cross
several rivers, through one of which, the Nottway, they had to swim, as there
was no one at hand to take them across in a boat.”
William
J. Hinke, "Diaries Of Missionary Travels Among The German Settlers In The
American Colonies 1743-1748," The Pennsylvania German Society Proceedings
And Addresses, (Published By The Society 1929) 34:79.
“ The settlements here
are totally surrounded by forests.”
Muhlenberg
Correspondence, 80.
“the whole country is one continuous
woods!”
Benjamin
F. Owen, "Letters of Rev. Richard Locke, and Rev. George Craig,
Missionaries In Pennsylvania of the Society For Propagating the Gospel In
Foreign Parts, 1746-1752," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography, (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., 1900),
24:470.
“…farmsteads were irregular in their
appearance, they were frequently set far back from the roads and most often adjacent
to a spring or stream.”
Ibid.,
104.
“The land is not really
dear. One takes up two-hundred acres,
promised to pay by installments in ten years and instead clears off the debt in
five years.”
Mittelberger,
119.
“Reaching a settlement is like a feast for
an inexperienced traveler—to see sun shine on some open grounds, to view clear
fields. You seem to be relieved from
that secret uneasiness and involuntary apprehension which is always in the
woods.”
J.
Hector Crevecoeur, Letters From an American Farmer And Sketches Of 18th-Century
America, (Penquin Books, Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1981) 359.
“In this country the chickens are not put
in houses at night nor are they looked after but they sit summer and winter
upon trees near houses. Every morning many a tree is so full of chickens that
the boughs bend beneath them.”
Mittelberger,
64.
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Friday 27 July 2012
Thursday 26 July 2012
Wednesday 25 July 2012
Monday 23 July 2012
Augustine Washington’s Probate Inventory. July 1, 1743.
Augustine Washington’s Probate Inventory. July 1, 1743.
Hall Back Room
1 Bed and Furniture £8
1 Bed £4
1 Chest of Drawers £3
1 Tea Table £0.5
4 Rush Bottom Chairs £0.10
2 Window Hangings £0.8
1 Dressing Glass £0.15
1 Trunk £0.6
1 pair hand Irons £0.2.6
Passage
1 large table £0.17.6
1 couch £0.5
1 small table £0,2
Back Room
2 beds and furniture £4.10
1 chest and box £0.8
1 old chest of drawers £0.5
Hall
1 Scren Fore (possibly an escritoire or writing desk) £0.13
1 Large Looking Glass £2.10
1 Large Table £1
1 Small Table £0.15
1 Arm Chair £0.12.6
11 Leathern Bottom Chairs £2.15
1 fire shovel and tongs and one pair hand irons £0.7.6
Parlour
3 beds £9
Old table £0.6
3 old chairs £0.2
1 old desk £2
1 looking glass £0.15
1 set window curtains £0.2.6
1 sugar box £0.4
Lumber in the room and cupboard £0.15
Upstairs Hall Chamber
3 beds and furniture £9
1 trunk £0.8
Parlour Chamber
2 old beds, 3 mattress cases £1.12
6 rugs £4.10
9 blankets £1.16
1 large cooler £0.10
Negros At The Home House
- Jack £30
- Bob £35
- Ned £22
- Dick £30
- Ned £30
- Toney £30
- Steven £2.10
- Jo £0.0.1
- London £20
- George £20
- Jcumy £5
- Jack £5
- Lucy £20
- Sue £35
- Judy £20
- Nan £32
- Betty £15
- Jenny £12.10
- Phillis £12.10
- Hannah £8
Stock
- 6 oxen at £2.10 - £15
- 9 cows at £1.10 - £13.10
- 4 two years old 15/ - £3
- 2 heifers at 20/ - £2
- 6 calves at 5/ - £1.10
- 21 sheep at 5/ - £5.5
- 2 sows £1.4
- 2 barrows £1.4
- 15 shoats £1.17.6
- 3 horses £12
- 1 mare £1.15
Plate
- 1 Soup spoon £1.10
- 18 Small Do. £13.10
- 7 Tea Do. £1.15
- 1 Watch £5
- 1 Sword £1.15
Glasses
- 1 Decanter £0.1.6
- 1 Mugg £0.1.6
- 3 Tumblers £0.1.6
- Sundry Salt Sellers £0.2
Chinaware
- 9 Gilt Saucers
- 6 Do. cups
- 1 Do. Teapot Milk Do. £1
- 1 Slopbowl & Butter dish
- 1 Tea pot Stand & Spoon Boat
- 8 blew Cups and Saucers
- 1 Slopbowl and Tea Pot £1
- 1 Milk pot & Stand & Sugar Dish
- 1 Large Blew and White Bowl £0.7
- 1 Do. Gilt £0.10
- 2 Dishes £0.5
- 9 Custard Cups £0.9
- 4 Coffee Cups £0.4
- 11 Plates £0.11
Dairy
- 16 Pewter Dishes £3.4
- 44 flat Plates £2.4
- 18 Soop Do. £0.18
- 4 Large Basons £0.12
- 2 Small Do. £0.3
- 3 Dish Covers £0.1.6
- 1 Cullender £0.5
- 2 fish Drainers £0.5
- 1 Do. Kettle £1.5
- 1 Small brass Do £0.1
- 1 bell Mettle Skillet £0.5
- 2 Old Sauce pans £0.2
- 1 Safe £0.1
- 7 Rundlettes £1.1
- 1 Churn 1 Pale 2 Wash Tubs 2 Piggins £0.12.6
- Old Tubs barrels pr £1
Closet
- Sundrys Lumber £2
Store House
- 49 Sifters £2.5
- 14 Searches £0.17.6
- 1 Set Coopers Tools £2
- 1 Set Surveyors Instruments £1.10
- 1 Old Suit of Curtains £1
- 9 yards wide Cloth £1.7
- 3 ½ yards Lite Do. £0.7
- 16 ½ yards blew pans £0.16.6
- 4 ¾ yds Druggits £0.6.6
- 12 yds Fustin £0.12
- 16 ¾ yds Shalloon Remns £1
- 1 ps Irish Linnen 25 yards £2.10
- 6 yds Do. £0.9
- 65 Ells Course Oznabrigs £1.12.6
- 81 Do. at 6d £2.0.6
- 27 ½ yds Cotton £1.7.6
- 22 yds Cours Plaid £0.11
- 8 yds dyd ozna £0.4
- 1 Old Saddle £0.6
- 2 Sugar Tubs £0.5
- 5 Small Coolers £1
Kitchen
- 7 Iron Potts £2.2
- 2 Coppers £4.15
- 1 Old Dripping Pan £0.0.6
- 2 frying Do. £0.3
- Old tubs £0.10
- 2 Spits
- 5 pr pot hooks £0.5
- 3 Racks £0.5
- 1 Large Skimmer & flesh forks £0.4
- 1 Grid Iron £0.1.6
- 1 Pr Stillyards £0.3
- 1 Box Iron £0.3
- 1 flat Do. £0.2.6
- 1 pr Hand Irons £1.2
Linnen
- 6 Diaper Table Cloths £2.2
- 10 Napkins £0.10
- 6 pr Sheets £4
- 10 White Linnen napkins £0.6.8
- 11 pr Pillow Cases £1.3
- 8 Towells £0.5.4
- 5 pr White Sheets £1.10
- 5 pr brown Do. £1.5
- 6 pr Pillow Cases £0.4
- 12 Towels £0.8
- 1 Suit of Silk & Cotten Curtains £1.5
- 7 Table Cloths £0.7
- 11 Old Napkins £0.0.11
- 1 Set of Silk Curtains £2
- 12 Oznabs Napkins £0.8
Cash
- Cash in a Purse £9.7.4
The
inventory contains several words that are not in common usage today. Here are a
few definitions (correctly spelled):
rundlet - a small barrel of uncertain size
from about 3 to 20 gallons
piggin - small wooden pail or tub with an
upright stave for a handle
shalloon - a lightweight wool or worsted
twill fabric, used chiefly for coat linings
osnaburg - heavy, coarse cotton fabric used
for grain sacks, upholstery, and draperies
drugget - a fabric woven wholly or partly
of wool, used for clothing
ell - English linear measure equal to
45 inches (144 centimetres)
http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/probate.html
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Sunday 22 July 2012
Lee's Observation on wearing two Waistcoats.
My thanks to Lee for drawing my attention to the following painting. The man on the left does appear to be wearing a sleeveless waistcoat over a sleeved waistcoat.
Lord Boyne in the cabin of his ship 1730-31
Saturday 21 July 2012
Dwellings & Fortifications.
About 25 years ago I built a small fort in Henry's Wood on the Eastern edge of Wychwood Forest. This fort is now in a bad state of repair, with some walls having fallen down. Since building this fort I have learnt a lot more about original constructions, so I hope to rebuild this fort better than I did the last time.
http://web.hardynet.com/~gruber/fort_pleasant.htm
Fort Henry in Henry's Wood.
http://web.hardynet.com/~gruber/fort_pleasant.htm
Friday 20 July 2012
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Northeast Voyageur: Into The Woods - available for Kindle and Nook!
Have not read this one yet, but for the price I think it might be worth checking out.
I Found A New Blog. Check It Out.
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Illinois, USA
More Than One Weskit.
You may remember the post I made a long time ago regarding the wearing of more than one weskit/waistcoat in winter. Well here is some more documentation.
As you can see, some waistcoats had sleeves.
The body of a man found
drowned in the Sault St-Louis opposite the house of Andre Lamarre;
approximately five feet and a half tall, long auburn hair with a braid held
against the head with a rosary, a shirt of common linen, a pair of breeches of
homespun linen, a white short waistcoat, another brown one and a waistcoat
fastened with a double row of pewter buttons, blue leggings.
Parish
of Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil. 1747
Costume in New France,
1740-1760: A Visual Dictionary by Suzanne and Andre Gousse, page 66:
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Prolonging The Use Of Your moccasins On The Trail.
There are two ways in which I prolong the use of my woodland centre seam moccasins. One is to sew extra soles on the moccasins, and the other is to carry inner soles in my pack. I also carry spare moccasins tied to my blanket roll.
The leather inner soles I carry are not a permanent repair, but if you have a whole right through the moccasin sole. these will protect your feet until you can make a better repair.
The leather inner soles I carry are not a permanent repair, but if you have a whole right through the moccasin sole. these will protect your feet until you can make a better repair.
Bra not a modern invention? 15th Century bra unearthed
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bra-not-a-modern-invention-15th-century-bra-unearthed/975685/
Of course it could be possible that these underpants were only worn during the woman's menstrual cycle to hold some form of pad in place. During the early to mid 18th century I believe it was considered not healthy for women to wear underpants, but I wonder if something like this was used at times?
Of course it could be possible that these underpants were only worn during the woman's menstrual cycle to hold some form of pad in place. During the early to mid 18th century I believe it was considered not healthy for women to wear underpants, but I wonder if something like this was used at times?
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Australia
Austria
Monday 16 July 2012
Flintlock Fallow Hunt For Food. By Mopoke.
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Australia
Victoria, Australia
Sunday 15 July 2012
Over The Hills & Far Away. Sharp.
A Little late for my period, but I enjoy watching Sharp occasionally and I love this music.
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Saturday 14 July 2012
Book Review. The Lure Of The Labradore Wild.
This true story is set in the early 20th century, but the hazards these three young men face on their explorations into the Labradore interior would have been much the same in the 18th century in similar conditions. I found it hard to put this book down, as I found it very interesting. Not so much from the point of view of learning what to do in similar conditions, but what not to do!
On the one hand these three men were seeminly smart people, but on the other hand they were ignorant about a lot of things.
The half-breed that accompanied the two white explorers certainly seemed knowlegeable regarding woods lore, but made little attempt at advising his employers when it came to caching supplies along the way. Nor it seems did he have any say in what was carried in the way of arms. Anyway, if you have an interest in exploration or historical trekking or even "Bug-Out" survival, this book is certainly worth reading.
My thanks to my good friend Dave/Girty for loaning me this book, much appreciated Dave.
Regards, Keith.
Friday 13 July 2012
Rain. A Story of a Historical Trek.
Rain.
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look
behind the ranges-. Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you.
Go!"
Kipling's "Explorer".
The day was overcast & the wind had been blowing
from the west for almost two days now. A change was blowing in I knew, but
despite this I decided to go on a trip. I was getting cabin fever. I started
off on what we call the wilderness road, also known as the "old Indian
trail". But as usual my curiosity got the better of me, and I turned off this
well worn trail to follow another. This new trail was a narrow game trail which
took me to lower ground.
I followed the trail through the forest marveling at
new sights of huge fallen trees now covered in lichen. Other trees large and
small had fallen across the trail and the wildlife that followed these trails
had been diverted around them but always the path led back to the original
trail. I always take my time on such trails, stopping frequently to look and
listen. Whilst on the move my eyes are constantly searching about, glancing at
the ground ahead of my foot falls then back to the forest about me.
The opening in the high ground to my left looked too
interesting to ignore. Once when hunting for meat in the Territory I had missed
my way in the thick acacia forest and unknowingly passed through a gap in the
hills. On my way back with my pack full of meat I suddenly came across this
barrier where there should be none. I knew my direction to be true, but was
reticent to start climbing this hill that confronted me. So I dropped my pack
and climbed the high ridge behind me. When I got to the top of the ridge I
could clearly see my way back and was able to retrace my steps that took me
through the gap in the hills.
The opening turned out to be a gulley taking me
upward. When I got to the top I found myself in open ground, like a grassy
avenue with the forest on either side. I was now travelling south, but soon
came to another luring sight, another gulley leading downward going west. I
decided to see where it led of course. I was not lost, but I was now in an area
I did not recognize. This was soon to change however when I finally came out
into a an area I knew, it was Hazard Valley.
I decided to go further west which would take me out
of this valley and into the next. I had two paths I could take. I could go
north and get back onto the Wilderness Trail where it came down from Pilot
Rock, or I could go south and then west which would take me up and over the top
of the valley ridge. I turned north.
The Wilderness Trail is quite wide and was cleared
to get wagons through, though no wagons had been this way for a long time. I
followed the trail upward where it passed through the valley ridge. Here the
area changed, the forest here was primeval looking with thick bracken and large
grass trees. There were fallen trees now green with age and one tall bent tree
that was covered in huge growths that I was sure could be cut off to produce
wooden bowls.
Now I was descending into Fox Valley. Smaller than
the other two valleys to the east with a small forest of She Oak among the
other forest trees. There is a pond close to a good camping place which is
where I was headed. The sky was now very dark to the south west, and I knew
that rain was coming. But the wind that was to bring this rain had not reached
me yet, so I had perhaps a little time.
I shed my pack, leather water bottle and shot pouch
and set about constructing my shelter. Once canvas was up I started collecting
firewood. I made two large piles of wood collected from the forest floor. One
branch with many twigs on the end I used as a broom or rake to clear the area
of sticks and leaves from around the camp site. Some of this I placed in my
shelter for a bed. Small sticks and dried grass I stored at the back of the shelter
in case the fire should go out in the night. I dug a small fire pit using the
earth I removed to construct a barrier about the fire so rain would not flow
into it. I collected rocks and made a reflector at the back and sides of the
fire to reflect heat into my shelter. Then I heard it coming through the
forest, the wind.
I hurriedly placed my packs and bag plus my gun
inside the shelter and set about making fire. I had collected some dry grass
and dried bracken along the trail and placed it in my haversack. I placed some
larger wood at one end of the small fire pit and stacked the dried bracken and
twigs and larger wood up against this like making a miniature lean-to. I
quickly struck sparks into my tinderbox and using the dried grass kindling blew
it into flame and thrust this beneath the fire lay just as the wind and the
first drops of rain reached my shelter.
I could see that I would not be venturing far for
the next couple of days. I placed my brass trade kettle beneath one corner of
my shelter to catch rainwater, then settled down to write in my diary and watch
the rain falling on the pond.
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Research and Primary Documentation.
Research and
Primary Documentation.
In our search
for historical information, we must be careful not to become too narrow
focused. Whilst it is true that we need to find out what a particular character
used and wore, we must not discard the possibility that this character, this
persona, could have used and wore other items that are not documented in the
written word or in period paintings.
One of the least
documented characters in the 18th century is the woodsman. A woodsman is a
woodsrunner, a person who is knowledgeable in woods lore. A woodman on the
other hand is a wood cutter, a totally different persona all together. I have
not as yet come across a painting, sketch or etching of an English or colonial
woodsman, so the best we can do is use common sense and combine that with
written documentation.
People are
continually getting confused between the difference in what was fashion and
what was common dress. The city and town gentleman or lady may well have been
concerned with fashion, but a woodsman or woods woman was not concerned with
social graces and fashion, they were concerned with survival, comfort to a
certain degree, and practicality. They
did not sit round the camp fire and judge others by their dress, though they
may on occasion expressed an interest in certain articles of dress and
equipment belonging to others, and in some circumstances given advice on the
practicality of certain items.
What we need to
do is establish what items of dress and equipment were available in our chosen
time period. Then we need to establish the practicality, or the lack of
practicality in using such an item. Just because we have not read that a
certain item was used, or have not seen a period painting of a woodsman using a
certain item, it does not mean that this particular item was not used. If an item
was commonly available, then it could have been used by anyone who considered
that item to have been of practical use to themselves.
Two examples of
this way of thinking come immediately to mind, the use of an oilcloth for
shelter, and the use of a belt pouch that in the 18th century was no longer
considered a fashionable item. The use of the oilcloth by traders and military
is well documented, yet some people still refuse to use it because they are
neither trades people or military. The same applies with the use of the belt
pouch. It too is well documented in paintings, sketches and etchings so we know
the belt pouch was available and being used as a practical item of wear for
carrying items that were not carried in pockets.
“The town
has increased one-third since the year 1745; at that time there was not a
single manufacture: the inhabitants either lived by one another, or by the
hiring out of ships, or by the salmon trade. At present the manufactures have
risen to a great pitch: for example, that of sailcloth, or ‘sailduck,’
as it is here called, is very considerable; in one house, eighty-two thousand
five hundred and sixty-six pieces have been made since 1755. Each piece is
thirty-eight yards long, and numbered from eight to one. No. eight weighs
twenty-four pounds, and every piece, down to no. one, gains three pounds in the
piece. The thread for this cloth is spun here, not by common wheel, but by the
hands. Women are employed, who have the flax placed round their wastes, twist a
thread with each hand as they recede from a wheel, turned by a boy at the end
of a great room.”
The men were so harassed and fatigued with continually
sitting and
lying on the ground, all huddled in a small compass,
that three days
before the convention took place, they complained to
the Captain who
commanded, that they were not permitted to fire on the
enemy, whereby
they could obtain more ease, and therefore ought to be
relieved, and
they received for an answer, when night came on it
should be mentioned
to the General. The Captain desired me to go to
head-quarters, and
when I arrived there, I found they partook of the
hardships in common,
for the three Generals had just laid down on their
matrasses, having
only an oil-skin to cover them from the weather; the
Aid-de Camps were
sitting round a fire. ..."
Anburey, 2, p. 8-9.
Anburey, Thomas; "Travels Through the Interior
Parts of America in a
Series of Letters by an Officer." 2 Vols. London,
1789. Houghton
Mifflin, NY 1923, Reprint, New York Times and Arno
Press, 1969.
, upon a baggage-cart, and nothing to
shelter her from the inclemency of the weather but a
bit of an old
oil-cloth, a soldier's wife was delivered of child,
she and the infant
are
both well, and are now at this place.
The Calendar and Quartermaster Books of General George
Rogers Clark's
Fort
Jefferson, Kentucky, 1780
Stores issued by order of Captain Robert George: to
Mr. Miles,
quartermaster Sergeant, one musket or smoothed gun; to
Captain Rogers
going to the Falls of Ohio, two muskets or smoothed
guns and five tents
or
oil cloths (VSA-50: 39)
"This morning an account was bro't to town, that
a large army of French
and Indians were seen at a small distance from the
German flats, but few
here believe it. Sir William Johnson is still in
readiness, with 1500 of
the militia. Every man in the French army that came
against Fort William
Henry, was equipped in the following manner, viz. With
two pair of
Indian shoes, 2 pair of stockings, 1 pair of
spatterdashes, 1 pair of
breeches, 2 jackets, 1 large over-coat, 2 shirts, 2
caps, 1 hat, 1 pair
of mittens, 1 tomahawk, 2 pocket-knives, 1 scalping
knife, 1 steel and
flint, every two men an ax, and every four a kettle
and oilcloth for a
tent, with one blanket and a bearskin, and 12 days
provision of pork and
bread; all which they drew on little
hand-sleighs."
Extract of a letter from Albany, dated April 2, 1757
printed in the
Boston Gazette, April 18, 1757.}
"...tarpaulins
for covering the provisions and oilcloths to cover the gunpowder."
~ Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, Memorial to the Council, 1719 (Kent 2001, 71 )
~ Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac, Memorial to the Council, 1719 (Kent 2001, 71 )
"They
name prelat a large and heavy cloth, oil-painted in red, to keep oneself from the rain." Louis
Franquet, French Military Engineer, 1752 (Delisle, 17 )
"1
Oilcloth for every 4 men for tentage..."
~ Anonymous list of supplies for French Army in Canada, 1756 (Delisle, 42)
~ Anonymous list of supplies for French Army in Canada, 1756 (Delisle, 42)
“…I made a Lodge with an oilcloth near the small Lac de la puise on the portage.”
~ Jean Baptiste Perrault, Minnesota, 1784 (Perrault, 521 )
This street vendor is wearing two belt pouches.
All of these images date to the early to mid 18th century.
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