Revolutionary War (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin R. Scollon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arnold's Bay Project" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Champlain Valley, including the bottomlands of Lake Champlain, is home to several Revolutionary War battlefield sites. Methodologies used for mapping the underwater sites are specially tailored to their environments and utilize modern technologies. The Valcour Bay Research Project (1999-2005) mapped the American line of defense between Valcour Island...

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Stephen McBride. George Crothers. Kim A. McBride.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reports on recent archaeological and geophysical investigations at Cook’s Fort, Monroe County, WV, constructed by local militia in 1774 during Dunmore’s War and garrisoned by militia and used as a place of refuge by settlers throughout the Revolutionary War. During these wars this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald W. Deiss.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Varna G. Boyd. David Berg. James Kochan. Nancy Anthony. Kathleen Furgerson. Carey O'Reilly. David Weinberg.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Thompson. Kevin C. Nolan. Lance Greene.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Continued archaeological and community engaged research at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) located in Springfield, Ohio, is producing results that will help set the stage for updated battlefield interpretation. The largest American Revolution conflict west of the Alleghenies, the ~1200 residents of the Shawnee town of Peckuwe struggled to thwart the attack of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John A. Turck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania commemorates the 1777-1778 winter encampment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The enabling legislation directs the National Park Service to preserve the natural and cultural resources of, and educate the public...

DOCUMENT Citation Only KFS Historic Preservation Group.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Sabick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arnold's Bay Project" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In October of 1776 a tiny bay on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain was the site of the final encounter of the three-day Revolutionary War Battle on Lake Champlain. In this location, formerly known as Ferris Bay, five colonial vessels, under the command of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, were burned to deny their capture by the pursuing British...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherilyn A. Gilligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arnold's Bay Project" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will explore the material culture associated with Arnold’s Bay, a Revolutionary War battlefield site, from the pre-Columbian era through the Revolution and into today. Since the battle took place, people have been removing objects from the site starting with British salvage efforts, to local relic hunters, through an era of avocational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Scott. Joel Bohy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Boston Massacre occurred at the Custom House on King Street on March 5, 1770 when British regular troops fired on colonists. Five colonists were killed and six wounded. One British officer and eight soldiers participated in the event. How did eight soldiers firing only one shot kill...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Zeitlin. John T. Crawmer.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Security is a prisoner-of-war camp established during the Revolutionary War and the only such camp to survive modern development. From July 1781 and May 1783, the camp housed 1600-1800 British POWs captured at the Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Pippin. Aericka Pawlikowski. Kyle Honness.

During the American Revolutionary War, the British outpost on Carleton Island was an integral connection between the cities of Montréal and Québec, and frontier military posts in the Great Lakes. Situated at the head of the St. Lawrence River, the diverse activity on Carleton Island included a military fortification, naval base, shipyard, merchant warehouses and civilian refugee settlements. In the eighteenth-century British Army, deep class and status differences existed between the officers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Nagiewicz. Peter Straub.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An obscure historical on October 6-13th, 1778 along the Mullica River in Port Republic, New Jersey, resulted from the actions of local privateers in confiscating British merchant ships. British General Sir Henry Clinton decided to move against this “Nest of Rebel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Skic.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battles around Philadelphia in 1777 radically changed the life of Richard Mansergh St. George, a young Irish officer in the British Army. Wounded at Brandywine, a participant in what he described as “a dreadful scene of havock” at Paoli, and shot in the head at Germantown, St. George returned to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A Griswold. Joel Dukes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in 2019, the Northeast Archeological Resources Program (NARP), in conjunction with Saratoga National Historical Park (SARA), American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA) and other partners began a two year program of study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Comer.

On 10 July 1780, Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau arrived in Narragansett Bay off Newport, Rhode Island, with 450 officers and 5,300 men to assist the British colonies in North America in their struggle to gain independence from the British Empire. In June of 1781, they marched south to Yorktown, Virginia. The cannon brought by Lieutenant General Rochambeau and the French fleet under the command of Admiral de Grasse were essential in what proved to be the decisive battle of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Leader. Steven D Smith. James B. Legg.

Investigation of the Revolutionary War site of Fort Motte (38CL1) has been ongoing since 2004. In the 2015 field season volunteers and the summer archaeological field school assisted the work by analyzing 9200 sq meters of the roughly 13 acres of the primary battlefield site by dual gradiometer. Eventually the entire 13 acres will be analyzed. This paper presents the findings to date with special attention to the fortification, plantation house and sap.

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Denise Dennis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My presentation will discuss a rare, if not unique, Revolutionary War artifact, the Gershom Prince Powderhorn. Gershom Prince was an African American soldier who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution under Capt. Robert Durkee of the Connecticut Line. Prince was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only KFS Historic Preservation Group.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel P Turner.

This paper examines the collection of tools recovered from the Storm Wreck, a late eighteenth-century Loyalist evacuation transport lost in December of 1782 at the end of the American Revolutionary War on the St. Augustine Bar, in present-day St. Johns County, Florida. A variety of hand tools, many with their wooden handles preserved intact, have been recovered and are currently undergoing conservation treatment. While many of these tools were likely intended for general use in the home or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joe Blondino.

Recent excavations at General Washington’s Headquarters at Valley Forge have provided a somewhat rare glimpse of the Continental Army’s Commander in Chief. The house occupied by the General during his six month stay at the Valley Forge encampment served as both Washington’s residence and fulfilled the role of headquarters of the entire rebel army during that period. Excavations at the site yielded a great deal of information about everyday life at headquarters, as well providing insight into how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F. Veit. Adam Heinrich. Sean McHugh. Steve Santucci.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After 80+ years of archaeology at campsites from the American Revolution is there really anything left to be learned from more excavation? Shouldn’t these sites be left alone before they look like the archaeological equivalent of Swiss cheese? This paper, based on three recent seasons of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John T. Crawmer. Jane C. Skinner. Nicholas Zeitlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Security was a Revolutionary War prison camp that housed as many as 1,800 British POWs. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the camp stockade is still unknown. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of previous methodologies and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Gall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Extensively studied archaeologically and historically, the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 in central New Jersey showcased Washington’s ability to stand against the British Army and hold the field of battle. The New Jersey militia was important to this success. They harassed the British Army leading to the battle and commanded key terrain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Straub. Steve Nagiewicz.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An obscure historical battle along the Mullica River in Port Republic, New Jersey, was one of the first documented amphibious assaults by a foreign nation on South Jersey soil and has led to a continuing investigation of shipwrecks of the Revolutionary War period. These shipwrecks have become field classrooms, using them to instruct students about small boat operations, research...