My thanks to weaver, one of our group members for bringing this item to my attention.
Many thanks weaver.
Regards, Keith.
Monday, 3 December 2018
The Apothecary Fold.
The apothecary fold is an 18th century paper container that apothecaries made to hold prescriptions. These same containers can be used to hold herbs or spices in your knapsack.
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
More Information on the Penny Knife.
I should have picked up on this information a long time ago when Willy contacted me saying that the penny knife looked just like a Trattenbach
pocket knife. Somehow I missed Willy's post! Then recently I was contacted by Robert asking for more information on the Penny knife, I told Robert that I had no more information to give him. Then I get an email from Robert with this, to me anyway, astounding revelation that these penny knives were being made over 500 years ago in Austria, & they are still being made today! So my apologies to Willy for missing his post, & my thanks to Robert for the information he sent me that started a new line of research.
Here below then is what I have found so far:
Penny Knife Information.
Almost everyone knows the pocket faucet - a folding pocket knife with
a turned wooden handle that fits in any trouser pocket and is used in a variety
of ways, from jausen to mushroom picking. In 1422, the knife production in
Trattenbach was first mentioned in documents, since 1682 it is considered an
independent guild. One of the secrets to success was the hard,
high-quality sharp steel used for the blades. The knives were exported to
large parts of Europe and as far as Africa. Today two more factories
produce the Trattenbacher pocket felts by hand. The knowledge about the
history, production and use of the pocket fagot is still upheld today in
Trattenbach:
The Trattenbach pocket knife, a foldable knife that consists of a
blade and a lathed wooden handle, has been hand-produced in Trattenbach for
nearly 600 years.
Since 1682, Trattenbach’s cutlers have been recognized as an
independent guild.
The first written mention of knife-making there is from
1422.
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Monday, 26 November 2018
Immigration in 18th century America.
Immigration in 18th century America.
1707: As a result of the Act of Union (the Scottish Parliament
and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain), a
large migration of Scottish to America began. They settled in colonial seaports
and the Lowland laborers became indentured servants in the tobacco-raising
colonies and New York.
1709: German Palatines, fleeing the devastation of war, settled
in the Hudson Valley and Pennsylvania.
1717: As punishment, criminals in England were transported to
America, mostly to Virginia and Maryland.
1718: Large numbers of discontented Scottish again emigrated to
New England and later to Maryland and Pennsylvania; they had been driven out of
their homeland by high rent, absentee landlords, and short leases for farming
land.
1730: Germans and Scotch-Irish migrated from Pennsylvania to
Virginia and the Carolinas.
1732: Georgia, settled by James Oglethorpe, provided a place for
imprisoned debtors.
1740: In an attempt to encourage Jewish immigration, the
Naturalization Act was enacted by the English Parliament. It gave British
citizenship to colonial immigrants.
1745: Another wave of Scottish immigration when rebels against
the attempt to re-throne the Stuarts were sent to America.
1755: On suspicion of disloyalty, Nova Scotia expelled French
Arcadians. Those who survived settled in Louisiana.
Thursday, 22 November 2018
Sunday, 18 November 2018
The Gunpowder Bag.
Two of the author's five leather gunpowder bags.
A gunpowder bag is used for carrying extra gunpowder on extended journeys into wilderness area, or when one plans to be living in the wilderness long term. A leather bag of gunpowder is far lighter to carry than multiple powder horns.
The Gunpowder Bag.
“ takes fire readily from the
spark of a steel: but it is much improved by being kept dry in a bag that has
contained gunpowder.”
Samuel Hearne, Northern Canada, 1772.
A hundred miles upstream from Jamestown, on an exploring journey by
canoe, Smith was badly burned and injured by the explosion of a gunpowder bag.
Supplies for 24 Abenakis and Iroquois who have joined our party:
24 pounds of gunpowder in one bag of half an ell
Supplies for the six militia men: 6 pounds of gunpowder in bags of
one eighth of an ell.
1756-1760 journal of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
France, Archives de Colonies series C11A, volume 117, folios 191v to
194, National Archives of Canada, microfilm f-118.
15 Leather Powder Bags
From American Fur Co. Papers. Vol. Y, Z. Missouri Historical Society
Invoice of Sundry Merchandise furnished Rocky Mountain Outfit 1837
under charge of Fontenelle, Fitzpatrick & Co.
"He thinks every man should have a wallet of Oznabrigs to carry
his provisions in when they leave their horses at the passes of the mountains,
and two pair of mockasheens, that blankets would be wanted and clasp knives,
thread for the linen and woolen bags for
transporting the powder when taken from the waggons...................
Letter of Judge Henderson to Propietors remaining in North Carolina
Boonsborough June 12, 1775.
Boonsborough June 12, 1775.
"Wednesday Morning a sorrowful Accident happen'd at the House of
Cap. Thomas Homans in the westerly Part of this Town near Hooper's Meeting
House: A small Quantity of Powder (suppos'd to be about a Quart) in a
Leathern Bag, having been some time since put up on the Jam of a Chimney in a
Chamber wherein they had been us'd to make a Fire, and the Family being about
moving into the Country, did not suppose they should every have Occasion for a
Fire there: But a young Child being out of Order two or three Days ago, they
made a Fire in the same Chimney, and unhappily forgot the Powder…….
The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 12, 1739
BOSTON, February 26.
April 12, 1739
BOSTON, February 26.
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