New Items Feb 21 2025 Box 26

 This week we photographed Document Box 26 and added the pics to the database
Below are a few selections or click on Document Box 26 to see all.

#3608-9-10, sandwich bags,  have colonial artifacts from 3 Colrain sites.  #3609 has a notecard "Found at the site of Fort Morris".  Unfortunately neither this notecard or the old "Louise" file card (below) say very much about the "who" and "where"  and context.

It nay be that James Johnston was a metal detector enthusiast.  **** Archaelogist Aaron Miller, who managed the dig at nearby Fort Taylor in ca. 2006, was shown this image and wrote ...  "These look exactly like the kinds of materials I would expect to see at the fortified farmsteads. I suspect that you're right and these materials were found by a metal detectorist. Otherwise, I would expect to see a bunch of tobacco pipes and ceramics as well. You probably have a mix of mid 18th-century material and some later 18th- and 19th-century buttons as well. "...  Aaron Miller, PhD, led an archaeogical dig of colonial Fort Taylor in Charlemont. (email w Dave Allen of CHS, Feb 2025)


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#1129  below, is a "Coffin Plate" for Carrie Davenport. It appears to be silverplate. Size 4" x 6". It has a concave structure. (see below).  Inscribed is her age at death (21 years) and her death date in 1871.   (Carrie Louisa Davenport is buried at North River Cemetery  per Don Purington research Feb 2025.).

Below is the bottom of #1129.
 There are 5 of these coffin plates in Box 26.
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#2324 is a small box of metal buttons.  Source and vintage is not recorded in our files.



Archaelogist Aaron Miller, who viewed the above photo, writes .... "Collection of 18th and 19th-century copper-alloy buttons. Most likely are associated with men's clothing items. The majority appear to have been buried and may have been found with a metal detector. Some of these may connect to the first period of settlement in Colrain. "....  ( 2025 email conversation with Dave Allen of CHS) .
To see 4 CHS sets of colonial artifacts, click here.
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#1117-1126 are jewelry and personal effects from the Stetson family. 
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The end    d. allen

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