Solid and complete 6-pound cannonball recovered at the site of the French Fort Saint-Frederic at Crown Point, New York.

The ball is rusted but has retained its round shape despite some blobs of rust and small amounts of material loss.

Fort Saint-Frederic was a French fort built on Lake Champlain to secure the region against British colonization and control the lake. It was located in modern New York State across the lake from modern Vermont at the town of Crown Point in New York. The fort, whose construction began in 1734, was never attacked, and was destroyed in 1759 before the advance of a large British army under General Jeffery Amherst.

The British constructed the much larger Fort Crown Point next to the Saint-Frederic ruins, which also never came under attack. Its small garrison was captured in 1775 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, after which Fort Crown Point also fell into ruin. The fort sites at Crown Point were preserved in the Crown Point State Historic Site in 1910.

This item is from the collection of Frank Kravic who was the co-author of “Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution.”

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