Recruiting new militiamen for an expedition against the Shawnee in the Ohio Territory, on the Cuyahoga River, took place on July 4th and 5th at Pricketts Fort, with indifferent success reported.
Although a fair number of interested men initially stepped forward to join the ranks, once it was explained to them that, at [...]
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On the 4th of July, a recruiting party at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, American Revolution, Capt Springer, Fourth of July, Tom Carson, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, recruitment on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ancestral Wars
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Chief Logan, Jacob Prickett, Kimberly Miller, Lee Miller, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Okey Simmons, Prickett family, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Zackquill Morgan, civilian militia on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On May 25th, Memorial Day, Pricketts Fort held observances in memory of the men from Pricketts Fort who served in the following wars: the French & Indian War, Pontiac’s Uprising, Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. The ceremony also memorialized the descendents of these men who served in the Civil War.
At [...]
Strolling through the Fall Festival at Pricketts Fort
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Cordelia Spencer, Fall Festival, Greg Bray, Judy Wilson, Lee Miller, Okey Simmons, Shawnee, Tom Carson, Virginia frontier, applebutter, autumn, bear fat, blacksmithing, civilian militia, domestic life, frontier forts, frontier women, harvest, living history, powderhorn, re-enacting, wigwam on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Backwoods Virginians and the “First Declaration of Independence”
Posted in "Intolerable Acts", Adam Stephen, American Revolution, Continental Congress, Daniel Morgan, Declaration of Independence, Fort Gower, George Rogers Clark, Lord Dunmore's War, Michael Cresap, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Simon Girty, Simon Kenton, Thomas Jefferson, Virginia frontier, William Crawford, Zackquill Morgan, civilian militia, frontier forts, living history on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are many stories to be told of the earliest days of what is now West Virginia, and most have been told elsewhere already. But one story, which ties the origins of this region to the origins of the nation, deserves to be told more often. It involves a document which, while little known except [...]
molding a mess of musket balls
Posted in Michael Ray, Okey Simmons, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, flintlock rifles, musket balls on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With heavy rain and wind much of the day keeping us mostly inside, Michael and Okey make good use of their situation by molding a mess of musket balls. The method and tools used are identical to what a longhunter or farmer would have employed on the frontier. Michael sets up a tripod over a hot [...]
Memorial Day observations
Posted in Lord Dunmore's War, Okey Simmons, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, flintlock rifles, frontier forts, re-enacting on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In honor of Memorial Day here at Pricketts Fort, Okey Simmons gave a brief talk about the sacrifice made by the original militiamen and their families at Pricketts Fort during Lord Dunmore’s War and the American Revolution. After the talk he hung a memorial wreath on the front of the fort, after which the current [...]
Chief Logan & the birth of Pricketts Fort
Posted in Battle of Pt Pleasant, Chief Cornstalk, Chief Logan, Coleman Brown, Daniel Greathouse, Jacob Prickett, Lord Dunmore's War, Mingo, Monongahela River, Prickett family, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, William Hellen, William Robinson, civilian militia, frontier forts on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On this date, in 1774, at a trading post in Baker’s Bottom, near Wheeling on the Ohio River, a peaceful band of Mingo Indians were set upon by rogue frontiersmen under Daniel Greathouse and brutally slaughtered. Among the dead were members of the family of Chief Logan, who had until this time always been a [...]
a mingling of eras
Posted in Lord Dunmore's War, Prickett family, Shawnee, Virginia frontier, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, frontier farming, frontier forts, re-enacting, tagged Daniel Boone, Shawnee, Simon Kenton, Lord Dunmore's War, Civil War, Cornstalk, Logan, militia, flint & steel, re-enactors, Appalachia on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On this day, two hundred and thirty-one years ago, in 1777, when the original Pricketts Fort was only about three years old, Daniel Boone and about a dozen men were ambushed and cut off from the stockade at Boonesboro by over a hundred Shawnee warriors. In the resulting melee, Boone’s life was saved by another legendary [...]
a new season
Posted in Aaron Bosnick, Greg Bray, Judy Wilson, Okey Simmons, Virginia frontier, blacksmithing, civilian militia, flintlock muskets, frontier farming, frontier forts, frontier women, kitten, sheep, tagged 18th-century frontier, blackpowder firearms, blacksmithing, carding, cats, flax, flint & steel, flintlock rifle, ironware, knives, loom, militia, shearing, sheep, sheepdog, tomahawks, weaving, wool on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We just opened here at the fort a couple of days ago. The weather has been about perfect, sunny but not too warm, and with great cumulus clouds sailing slowly overhead to temper the sun. Already busloads of children are arriving, and will keep arriving nearly every day until the end of the school year. In addition to the [...]
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