Rev. War Powder Horn, Signed, Yorktown, VA 1778
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Revolutionary War Powder Horn,Signed, Yorktown, VA 1778: Highly engraved priming horn with details of Yorktown buildings, including the Courthouse, and inscribed J. Willson V. Art. 1778, York" Horn measures approx. 7" in length and has a wooden plug at base with hand forged nail. Carving may have been inked later to highlight the buildings. There are no known illustrations of Yorktown's colonial courthouse, making this horn perhaps the only extant view. See Edward M. Riley, "The Colonial Courthouses of York County, Virginia" in the William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series, Volume 22, No. 4 (Oct. 1942), pp. 399-414. For information verifying the Virginia Artillery's presence at Yorktown in 1778, see "William Benson and Captain Charles Edwards" by Leonora Higginbotham Sweeney in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, October 1959, pp. 429-431.
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Rev. War Powder Horn, Signed, Yorktown, VA 1778
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