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Item ID Date(s) Description Image Facsimile of 89.517 July 22, 1879 For a good review of N/A Broadside, the Battle of Minisink, advertising read the middle Minisink column. Centennial
Leather Framed 89.540 Late 18th General Reuben Appendix Coat of Arms Century Hopkins (1748-1822) Item was a soldier in the A540 Revolutionary War, a lawyer, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Orange County, NYS Senator (1794-1797), and a Brigadier General in the War of 1812. Letter 89.545 August 16, This is the letter N/A appointing 1774 appointing Henry Henry Wisner to Wisner to the First the First Continental Congress. Continental He was also appointed Congress to the Second Continental Congress but came back to Goshen to make gun powder before the Declaration of Independence was signed. Sword 89.549 Pre- This sword is thought N/A Revolutionary to have belonged to War Benjamin Tusten, father of Col. Benjamin Tusten, a doctor who died in the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779. Revolutionary 89.550 1775-1789 This sword was Appendix War Sword carried by Ensign Item Henry Smith. It has a A550 wooden handle, brass guard, and no scabbard. Surgical 89.573 Before July These scissors were Appendix Scissors 22, 1799 used by Dr. Benjamin Item Tuthill prior to the A573 Battle of Minisink.
Round box 89.610 1775-1789 This box, made of Appendix (made of reindeer horn, was Item reindeer horn) used to carry caps A610 during the Revolutionary War. Later, it was used as a snuff box by Daniel I. Ebbets whose wife, Elizabeth Kip, carried money, sewn in the hem of her petticoat, through the British lines to Patriot soldiers. Appendix The Appendix is organized chronologically by each item’s ID number.
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Appendix Item A550
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Appendix Item A610