Horn, Powder
- Object Name:
- Horn, Powder
- Object ID:
- 1940.016.05
- Creator:
- Ebenezer Johnson
- Date:
- 1746
- Description:
- Powder horn. Heavy grayish-yellow, one color throughout. Tip end mounted in gunmetal (pewter) with open rectangles at edge. Wide end plugged with flat wooden disc and shaped with projection for attaching hanger. Crude incised carving; lattice at edge. Two rows of circles with compass stars inside. Inscription: "EBENEZER JOHNSON HIS HORN" repeated twice, each running around the horn, not quite meeting evenly, followed by "1746". Good condition.
- Material:
- Skeletal
Horn
Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-6 W-7.5 L-17.75 inches
- Provenance:
- Ebenezer Johnson appears to have been the son of Stephen Johnson, born Haverill, MA, Sept. 16,1717, who settled in Sandown and later removed to Salisbury, NH, buying John Webster, of that town, the northern half of a 100-acre lot laid out to Jonathan Greeley, no.15 in the first range, May 3, 1767, for 350 pounds. He built a house on top of the hill west of William Holmes place. His last years were spent with his son James at Enfield, one of seven children.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
- People:
- Johnson, Ebenezer (1717- )
- Subjects:
- Powder horns
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