{"id":134,"date":"2011-12-31T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T13:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2015-09-24T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:04:25","slug":"new-york-french-indian-horn-dated-1758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"New York French &#038; Indian War Horn, dated 1758"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a beautifully\u00a0carved New York French &amp; Indian War horn. It was professionally carved, showing the British Coat of Arms, a bold NEW YORK 1758 and a wonderful full view of : The harbor, windmill, \u00a0fortifications, buildings and ships. Today this area is known as Battery Park.\u00a0A 1660 map found online of <em>\u201cNew Amsterdam, in Nieuw Neederlandt\u201d<\/em>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~ryker2\/NewAmsterdam.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rootsweb<\/a>, shows a similar scene of New York in 1758. The map, available <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~ryker2\/Manhattan1.gif\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, shows the fort as well as the location of the windmill. Interestingly, today the windmill is still the central part of the seal of <a title=\"Wikipedia - Seal of New York\" href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/c9\/Seal_of_the_City_of_New_York.svg\/360px-Seal_of_the_City_of_New_York.svg.png\" target=\"_blank\">The City New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN13931.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1587\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?attachment_id=1587\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN13931.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"DSCN1393\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN13931.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DSCN13931.jpg\" class=\"alignleft 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It was professionally carved, showing the British Coat of Arms, a bold NEW YORK 1758 and a wonderful full view of : The harbor, windmill, \u00a0fortifications, buildings and ships. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powderhorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-2a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}