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Hatfield Historical Society
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<p><span>The Hatfield Historical Society (HHS) manages the museum collections of the Town of Hatfield, including the Hatfield Historical Museum and the Mary Lou & Robert J. Cutter Hatfield Farm Museum. The mission of HHS is to promote an understanding of the history of Hatfield, by collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing that history and its relationship to the region.</span></p>
<p>The Hatfield Historical Museum, owned by the Town of Hatfield, is located at 39 Main St., Hatfield. Its collection consists of some 24,000 items.</p>
<ul>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://hatfieldhistory.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Society website</a></li>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Hatfield-Historical-Museum-627515587293630/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Museum on Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kEm_PGKCkqVInZezfZFJQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Society and Museums on YouTube </a></li>
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Sometime in the period leading up to the Revolution, someone was strolling along the bank of the Connecticut River in Hatfield, MA. He might have been a stylish dresser, given the fancy engraving of this coat button, sometimes called a “dandy” button in the English fashions of the era. Colonists had deep connections to England, especially for trade goods and manufactured items, and continued to prefer and use British fashions like this button. It’s about the size of a quarter, and most likely not from a military uniform, as those often were either plain or had military-themed patterns. Not everyone in the Revolutionary era was involved in the war, and many of the men who did fight wore a combination of military issued uniforms and their own civilian clothing. Without the rest of the outfit, there’s no way to know if his overcoat was the red of the British Regulars, or Continental Line blue, or something else besides.
This button was cast in a mold, then spun on a lathe to dish out the back very slightly before soldering on the copper loop for the shank. The surface is carved or stamped with a stronger metal to scrape away the dark surface and reveal a brighter metal design. That it had a shank tells us the garment was a thicker fabric, likely layers of linen or wool. Clothing of the era had many buttons, some of them purely decorative. Did the owner even notice he’d lost it? Probably not right away, or he would have picked it up again!
Like all other parts of clothing production, buttons were often saved and repurposed for later use, worn up until they wore out. The wire shank on this one has broken, so it could have come loose by either the thread breaking or the shank giving way, leaving us to wonder what became of the rest of the set, and the man who wore them.
Discovered and donated by Robert Osley, 2020
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1770
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A Dandy of a Button
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Hatfield Historical Society
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c.1770
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2020-060-001
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White metal, 1" diameter
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Hatfield Historical Museum
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Gravestone of Henry Wilkie
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November 20, 1828
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Hatfield Historical Society
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The Old Wilkie House
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Hatfield Historical Society
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Sepia toned Black/White photograph
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2016-268-001
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Hatfield Historical Society
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<p><span>The Hatfield Historical Society (HHS) manages the museum collections of the Town of Hatfield, including the Hatfield Historical Museum and the Mary Lou & Robert J. Cutter Hatfield Farm Museum. The mission of HHS is to promote an understanding of the history of Hatfield, by collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing that history and its relationship to the region.</span></p>
<p>The Hatfield Historical Museum, owned by the Town of Hatfield, is located at 39 Main St., Hatfield. Its collection consists of some 24,000 items.</p>
<ul>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://hatfieldhistory.weebly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Society website</a></li>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Hatfield-Historical-Museum-627515587293630/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Museum on Facebook</a></li>
<li>Visit the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2kEm_PGKCkqVInZezfZFJQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hatfield Historical Society and Museums on YouTube </a></li>
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<p>This horn was described in an exhibition of historical artifacts in Hatfield in 1889<sup>1</sup> as the powder horn of Henry Wilkie, a Hessian in General Burgoyne's army.</p>
<p>While Hessian soldiers during the Revolutionary War were typically pre-issued cartridge boxes, this horn may have been issued to Henry once in America, or could have been taken off a captured or killed soldier from the Continental Army. Since the more prominent initials on one side of the horn do not match Henry Wilkie’s initials, the latter scenario is more likely.</p>
<p>There are two known versions of how Henry came to Hatfield, MA. Samuel Partridge in his reminiscences<sup>2</sup> indicates that he knew Henry and described him as follows:</p>
<blockquote>“…Henry Wilkie, who was from Wolfenbüttel, Germany, belonged to General Burgoyne's army, and was taken prisoner at Saratoga. While on his march to Boston for reembarkation to Germany, he made his escape, preferring to remain in this country. He was a barber in his native country, and told me that the barbers there were surgeons to the extent of bleeding patients. He lived in a small one-story house with his wife and four sons. All of these sons attended school in the old brick schoolhouse. One of the sons, Henry, remained in town, where he died at an advanced age. The others left town before their father's death.”</blockquote>
<p>Another version of how he came to be one of the earliest non-English residents of Hatfield comes from an obituary of Henry’s grandson Charles E. Wilkie (donor of the powder horn), in which Henry is said to have been paroled. He, like many of his fellow Hessian soldiers, chose to remain in this country and was allowed to settle on condition that he not take up arms again for the British. Some Hessian POWs were paroled to local farmers, who needed manpower.</p>
<p>There were several paths of march taken by the prisoners from the Saratoga battlefield to Boston following General Burgoyne’s surrender on Oct. 17, 1777. One march led by General James Brickett did pass through Hatfield and another passed through Northampton. These, however, were thought to consist of British soldiers. The Hessians were marched via more southerly routes through Springfield and Connecticut. Along these routes, the Hessian soldiers were encouraged to desert their British armies and settle in the new land.</p>
<p>A more <a href="https://hatfieldhistory.weebly.com/blog/henry-wilkee-hessian-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">in-depth profile of Henry Wilkie</a> is available from the Hatfield Historical Society.</p>
<ol>
<li>PVMA, <em>212th Anniversary of the Indian Attack on Hatfield</em> (Northampton, MA, Gazette Printing, 1890)</li>
<li>Daniel White Wells, Reuben Field Wells, <em>A History of Hatfield in Three Parts</em> (Springfield, MA, F.C.H. Gibbons, 1910).</li>
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1777
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Powder horn of Hessian soldier Henry Wilkie
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Hatfield Historical Society
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circa 1777
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0055
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Natural horn, 13" x 5" x 4, likely of English or American origin, with some pinhole-burned designs and letters, not complete. Replacement wood plug in base and brown shoestring cord.
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Hatfield Historical Museum
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