I did some research on skates a few years back — there is a skating museum in Colorado that was very helpful in identifying some antiques. Sometimes the tip...
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spadone09
Feb 5, 2013 5:29 am
Hey I've been doing research on ice skates in the 18th and 19th century. I actually have a pair of early 19th century ones. I tested them out a few weeks...
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Stuart
nc.dragoon13th
Feb 5, 2013 6:29 am
Hi list, I know that this is late, but we now have a new website for Guilford Courthouse. www.battleofguilfordcourthouse.org The web page is still under...
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reportingrevwar
Feb 5, 2013 2:44 pm
My apologies for the shameless plug, but I'm excited to share today's news that my new book, Reporting the Revolutionary War, was named Best American...
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Walter McIntyre
waltermmac
Feb 5, 2013 3:37 pm
We’re planning to have at least one gun there. Walter From: Stuart Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 1:29 AM To: Revlist@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Revlist]...
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Jack Reimer
crownscot
Feb 6, 2013 1:22 am
Anybody out there have a source for scrimshaw artist ? Jack Reimer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Jack Sherry
jckshrry
Feb 6, 2013 1:57 am
Jack, You might contact Mystic Seaport or Strawberrybank in Massachusetts. Jack Sherry To: Revlist@yahoogroups.com; rwprogressive@yahoogroups.com From:...
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Michael Parrish
accuratemike
Feb 6, 2013 3:48 am
Jack, I've looked at this site before: http://www.scrimshanders.com/ . If you look around you can find scrimshanders there. Good luck, Mike...
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umfspock87
Feb 6, 2013 1:16 pm
Dear List, I wonder if anyone can help me better understand the term poll in reference to a person in colonial times. Here in Virginia, a tithable was a person...
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Elroy Davis
taltosvt
Feb 6, 2013 1:51 pm
Black's Law Dictionary (searchable on Google Books), describes a poll as being "Persons individually considered, without relation to others..." In the case...
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John White
avlonfrg
Feb 6, 2013 10:32 pm
... Jack I am not able to get to shows anymore, but based on my experience of over 30 years in the business, Wild Willy Frankfort would be hard to beat. Go to ...
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ebolton123
Feb 6, 2013 11:27 pm
Carol, Well the tips on mine are acorn shaped since you mentioned it...I referred to them as finials...but they really do look like acorns now that I look at...
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W. Scott Smith
WScottSmith
Feb 7, 2013 6:27 pm
Join 45 other 18th century surveying, cartography, and military engineering enthusiasts this weekend at our 6th Annual School of Instruction at Cacapon Resort...
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Joseph Ruckman
josephr4570
Feb 9, 2013 5:06 pm
It's not a deliberate spammer, it's someone whose e-mail has been hacked. When this happens, we delete the message from the archives and moderate the member...
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stantoncon@...
stantoncon...
Feb 9, 2013 5:19 pm
Will do, Sorry about that. Also, the spam is on several lists. Rich ________________________________ From: Joseph Ruckman <josephr4570@...> To:...
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Jack Reimer
crownscot
Feb 9, 2013 5:25 pm
ok..sorry Jack ________________________________ From: Joseph Ruckman <josephr4570@...> To: Revlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:06...
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Greg Ketcham
ft_ontario
Feb 9, 2013 7:19 pm
Obviously, this member's account was hacked. Use common sense- don't follow the link, delete the message. Greg Ketcham Revlist Advisory Board [Non-text...
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napmemorabilia
Feb 9, 2013 8:01 pm
REV WAR shooting in Virginia: Erica Arvold Casting is searching for local actors for an AMC television pilot, shooting in Richmond, VA in April 2013. This is a...
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donhagist
Feb 10, 2013 3:52 am
Does anyone happen to have the full text of the ad below? I haven't been able to find it in the usual on-line sources. I know of some archives that have this...
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bgh_dn
Feb 10, 2013 6:00 pm
list i have been reading about abner benedict a chaplin in the army in new york, being deepley interested in the efforts put forth to destroy the...
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Jack Sherry
jckshrry
Feb 10, 2013 6:14 pm
William, I believe the torpedoes they are talking about were more like today's mines and not today's torpedoes. Bushnell built an early submarine called the...
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John Navarro
jlnjake
Feb 10, 2013 7:22 pm
You are correct, torpedo was the name for mines used in water until the late 1800's . The "torpedo" as we know it today came about with the modern undersea...
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William
hgreenland1666
Feb 10, 2013 8:18 pm
Hello Don, I uploaded a copy of the ad from a later edition of the Pennsylvania Journal; it is in the files section under David Robinson, 17th Regiment. It is...
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donhagist
Feb 11, 2013 2:45 am
Excellent - thank you very much! And thanks to Paul Pace, who sent a copy off-line. I had suspected this guy was a deserter from the Continental Shoe Factory,...
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John Koopman III
abishai_forhire
Feb 11, 2013 5:22 pm
There is a reference that is often seen of the above mentioned person commenting on Washington's War Horses after the war. From a footnote I found, the account...
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denspear
Feb 11, 2013 8:57 pm
Greeting All  I have been asked to make some British bearskin drummers caps. Way back in the 70s I mad e a few 23th caps as well as caps for drummers and...
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bgh_dn
Feb 11, 2013 11:17 pm
list i was reading of the landing of general tryon at west haven conn. with 2500 troops strong . the whole country being in an uproar there was a...
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gene3f
Feb 12, 2013 1:17 pm
They did not stay long. Trion's forces landed at West Haven (on the beach near the end of Campbell Ave) and at what is Lighthouse Point on the other side of...
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morgankaren
Feb 12, 2013 9:21 pm
Robert Hunter, Jr., was the twenty-year-old son of a Scottish merchant living in London. In May 1785, Hunter left London on a journey to the United States and...
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SSY
acidicpiper99
Feb 12, 2013 9:21 pm
Along these same lines I noticed that the queens rangers had a highland company that was equipped as the other highland regiments? Does anyone have any...
