Powder horn with wooden plug and leather suspension chord. Harwinton, [Connecticut]: 1769. Approx. 10 1/2 in. Inscribed “Benjamin : Butler / 1769 / His : Horn / Made : Harwinton / May : the : 29 : 1769,” with slight artistic embellishments.

WITH Letter describing research signed by Timothy O. Reaves, Tennessee State Director of the Medal of Honor History Roundtable. Harwinton, Connecticut, 14 May 1976. 1 page, 4to, on Medal of Honor History Roundtable letterhead.

Though Benjamin Butler (b. 1749) is not recorded as serving in an army or militia, his brother, Jonathan (b. 1739), is among those listed in the muster roll of Connecticut’s 3rd Regiment in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. The younger Butler brother relocated from Branford to the town of Harwinton, married Dorothy Hayden in 1770, and fathered several children, including Salmon (b. 1772), Chloe (b. 1774), Allen (b. 1776), and Benammi (b. 1778). Harwinton, a portmanteau of Hartford and Windsor, is, per Reaves, the only in the world of its name.

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