16 NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



181. A part of the Shot-rack of the British Frigate Hussar, with four 



cannon balls ; also a musket, and a bayonet and scabbard. 

 The Frigate Hussar was lost December 15th, 1780, off Stoney 

 island on Westchester county shore, having struck Pot rock in 

 Hurlgate. She was loaded with troops, ammunition, and supplies 

 for the British army in this country. The troops and crew had 

 barely time to reach the shore before she sunk, with seventy 

 American prisoners, who were in irons and could not be rescued. 

 These relics were obtained by Messrs. Pratt & Howe, in the month 

 of August 1851, by the aid of Taylor's submarine armour, after 

 having been buried over seventy years. The wreck lies seventy-six 

 feet deep at high water. Henry B. Todd. 



182. Four Mosket-balls and two buckshot, from the battlefield of Lundy's 



Lane, Canada West. James A. Hurst. 



183. An Iron key and a Brass belt-slide, dug up at Fort Ticondcroga 



in the year 1849, by William Thorn. 



184. An Iron wormer, used for drawing charges from muskets ; found on 



the grounds near Fort William-Henry. Hiram Wood. 



185. An Ancient sword, scabbard and belt. The blade of the sword 



appears to be of the best of steel, mounted with brass ; and on 

 either side of the blade, in large capitals, is engraved the fol- 

 lowing : " God Bless the Province of New-York." 



This sword was the property of a provincial officer who served 

 in early French and Indian wars on the frontiers of New-York 

 and Vermont, and who died at an advanced age more than fifty 

 years ago. His property was sold at auction, and this sword was 

 purchased by Mr. Francis Cobb of Cornish in Sullivan county, 

 New-Hampshire (a remote connection of its former owner), and 

 remained in his possession while he lived. Mr. Cobb died some 

 two or three years since (about 1849), more than ninety years 

 old; and when his property was inventoried, the sword was found 

 among some rubbish in the attic of his house : it was purchased 

 for a small sum, and presented to the New-York State Antiquarian 

 Society by Eleazar Jackson. 



186. A Brick, made from the natural soil without any admixture. Brought 



from the city of New- York ; being a specimen of the kind used 

 in the erection of the new building on the southwest corner of 

 Thames-street and Broadway, near Trinity Church, and called 

 "Trinity Building" : manufactured at Buffalo, Erie county. 



R. Spencer Dver. 



