rare 18TH C. JAMES SMITH -BLACK BOYS REBELLION FORT LOUDEN SCRIMSHAW POWDER HORN

Description: ( CELL PHONE USERS PLEASE CLICK THE "SEE FULL DESCRIPTION" LINK BELOW FOR MORE DETAILS AND PHOTOGRAPHS! ) Amazing 14" Folk Art Scrimshaw depicting James Smith's Black Boys Rebellion at Fort Louden 1765 Click images to enlarge Description Up for Consideration is a Rare 14" Amazing Folk Art Scrimshaw depicting James Smith and the Black Boys Rebellion showing amazing scratch art scrimshaw of Soldier / Trapper, Indian Fights outside Fort Loudon c1765-1770 (Exact date Unknown) Offered to you is this Amazing Original Extremely Rare 13-inch Story Telling Powder Horn with Amazing Folk Art Scrimshaw depicting a James Smith and the Black Boys Rebellion. The horn is very detailed showing scenes of a French Trapper and a Indian Fighting with Bow and Musket. A Detailed depiction of Fort Louden (Pennsylvania), A "Liberty or Die" Patriotic Eagle and at the border going around the base plug is the words: "Ja's Smith his horn made by him at Fort Loudon" The base plug is solid wood with a partial leather strap. Spout is nicely carved and the horn has some beautiful dark patina. Unsure of the exact age of this piece but it could have been created in the late 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century as a tribute horn in commemoration of the events from 1764 to 1766. A Beautiful Military Horn. Smith's Rebellion or Allegheny Uprising, was an armed uprising between citizens of the Province of Pennsylvania and the British Army between March 5 and November 18, 1765. The nine-month uprising began when a wagon train loaded with illegal "warlike goods" was discovered at Pawling's Tavern (south of Greencastle, Pennsylvania). Alarmed by the train's contents, citizens led by James Smith intercepted and destroyed the goods (valued at over $1 million in today's currency) at a mountain pass near Sideling Hill. The numerous clashes afterwards involved more destruction, firefights, arrests, a kidnapping, legal maneuvers, a court trial, a two-day siege, and one casualty. In want of protection, frontier settlers looked for men capable of defending them against Indigenous raids and raised funds to establish a company of rangers to protect the settlement. The rangers' leader was a twenty-eight-year-old Scotch-Irish immigrant by the name of James Smith. As a teenager, James Smith joined a road-cutting crew in 1755 in response to the French and Indigenous threat. He was one of James Burd’s men, responsible for hacking out a road to support Braddock's invasion of western Pennsylvania. One day, on work detail, he was captured by an Indigenous scouting party, taken to Fort Duquesne, and made to run the gauntlet. Surviving the beating, he was adopted into a Mohawk family and lived with them for five years until escaping back to the Conococheague in 1760. When the year 1764 began, it looked as if the frontier of Pennsylvania was entering a peaceful interlude. Pontiac's forces had been defeated at the Battle of Bushy Run. Colonel Henry Bouquet was in the process of negotiating with the Indigenous peoples of the Ohio Country and it appeared that Europeans taken captive during the French and Indian War would soon be returning to their homes. In order to prevent future conflict, Britain instituted a series of laws under the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Under these laws, Britain's native subjects were forbidden to receive "war-like" trade items such as muskets, knives, tomahawks, gunpowder, and alcohol; and British subjects were forbidden to settle beyond the Proclamation Line, a line of demarcation that ran through the middle of present-day Pennsylvania and established the official edge of western expansion As an expert on Indigenous ways, notably survival and combat, Smith was an obvious choice to lead the company in the defense of the Conococheague in 1763. Smith chose two men, also former captives, to serve as his subalterns. Roughly 35 German and Scots-Irish men volunteered and were trained in the Indigenous manner of fighting. Each man supplied their own personal weapon, either a musket or rifle. Smith had them dress "uniformly in the Indian manner, with breech-clout, leggings, moccasins and green shrouds... In place of hats we wore red handkerchiefs, painted our faces red and black, like Indian warriors." Once equipped and trained, Smith's rangers set off on trails towards the enemy. It would be ten months before they returned. During their time away the Conococheague settlement remained relatively untouched by the violence of Pontiac’s Rebellion, while homesteads as far east as Carlisle were attacked A Wonderful Large Solid Revolutionary War Colonial Era or later Powder Horn (Note Images) This is an Ex-Museum Piece which had previously been on display in a Private Collection in Worcester, Massachusetts for many years! A Scarce and highly collectible Piece of Americana with Exquisite craftsmanship and American Military History. As our High Resolution Photographs are an Important Part of Our Description and as All Sales are Final Please Note All Images to assess your own opinion before bidding! We are Happy to combine Shipping Costs for Multiple Orders but please let us know before you pay for your items! *No International Sales or Shipping and we are Sorry for Any Inconvenience. 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Price: 1250 USD

Location: Lawrence, Massachusetts

End Time: 2024-10-18T23:55:20.000Z

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