This is a Riker case of relics recovered by Dean Thomas in the Revolutionary War camp at West Hartford, CT.

Included is a brass scabbard hook, a brass knee buckle, lead pencil, pieces of carved lead, flat lead with impression of a coin, sleeve links, several generic brass and pewter buttons, a 1721 George I Half Penny, and a well worn “USA” Continental Army button.

This was the site of a 1778 encampment of the Continental Army. The site is located on the grounds of the Metropolitan District Commission, near the southern end of Reservoir #6. The only significant surface remains at the site are ruins of stone-lined fireplaces. Three brigades of the Continental Army were stationed in and near Hartford area in 1778, as a result of General George Washington's worry that British Army forces shipping out of New York City were preparing to raid Connecticut communities. Two brigades, one commanded by Enoch Poor and the other by Ebenezer Learned, were ordered to the area in October 1778. Newspaper reports of the period and a contemporaneous journal kept by an officer of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment indicate that American soldiers camped at this location from October 15–21, 1778. The area was thereafter used as a military hospital. [jet] [ph:L]

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