Horn, Powder
- Object Name:
- Horn, Powder
- Object ID:
- 1965.532.08
- Creator:
- Flint, Jacob
Artist - Place of Origin:
- Hillsborough, NH
- Date:
- 1775
- Description:
- Powder horn. Light colored shading to dark wood-brown at tip end. End plug and tip stopper missing. Two raised rings carved near tip. Mid section carved in form of flower calyx from which the body of the horn springs. Line carving on body of horn of "America swallowing ye bitter draught" with participants labeled. Also crest of lion and unicorn either side of shield inscribed "Liberty Property or Death", "Success to America" beneath and sketch of battle of Bunker Hill.
Inscriptions on horn:
Under battle sketch, "Ye British / Assault on / Bunker Hill / June Ye 17th 1775"
Under sketch of America & its title, "Now is the time ye hearts of oak / To give our foes a fatal stroke".Beneath that, "Whosoever steals this horne / Will go to Hell so sure as he is borne".
On each of the several sides of the calyx as follows:
"Jacob Flint * His Horne / Hillsborough * AD 1775"
"Marched on alarm / April 23, 1775"
"Fought the British / At Bunker Hill"
"Capt. Baldwin's Co. June 17 / Col. Starks Regt. 1775"
"Served in Capt. ...ment's Co. / Co. Gilman's Reg. to Canada 1776"
"Fought at Saratoga / in Capt. Hale's Co."
"Under Col. Gerrish / October 1777"
"Mustered out / Ye 14th of March 1778" - Material:
- Skeletal
Horn - Dimensions:
- H-2.5 W-5.5 L-11.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Jacob Flint is known to have been in Hillsborough in 1776 and from the date on his horn was there in 1775, and thought to have been in town some years before that. He seems to have lived in several parts of town. His name disappeared from the tax records in 1803. He was a brick mason by trade. In Oct.1777 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel and Mary (Tayler) Bradford, and later became the father of either 7 or 10 children. Several of the children moved to Hancock.
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- People:
- Flint, Jacob (1751-1835)
- Subjects:
- Powder horns, Revolutionary War, Battle of Bunker Hill
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