Dug Life Metal Detecting
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Both pics are of the same buckle.....and I truly hope your not trying to discredit my find......
If indeed this is a shoe buckle , there should be another one out there !
We also know that Washington never set foot in Kentucky.....Actually....when you start doing the research its not as far fetched as it seems... The area the buckle was found was inhabited bya number of early American politics... The Meriwether Lewis family... The Johnson Family (vice pres Richard Johnson) LaFayette was here.... The Taylors where here.... GWs personal powder flask was willed to a Lewis descendant that was less than 15 miles from the spot. The Washingtons where god parents to the Lewis children. All the families intermarried...
We know that Pattison was a tinsmith from Berlin Conn.
Which was frequented by Washington regularly. He was also commisioned to produce articles for Washingtons military... It may not have been a piece that belonged to GW himself...... then again.. it very well could have
I never said it did prove any thing...... I said it could be a possibility. I have an idea....prove it wasnt.
Actually....when you start doing the research its not as far fetched as it seems... The area the buckle was found was inhabited bya number of early American politics... The Meriwether Lewis family... The Johnson Family (vice pres Richard Johnson) LaFayette was here.... The Taylors where here.... GWs personal powder flask was willed to a Lewis descendant that was less than 15 miles from the spot. The Washingtons where god parents to the Lewis children. All the families intermarried...
We know that Pattison was a tinsmith from Berlin Conn.
Which was frequented by Washington regularly. He was also commisioned to produce articles for Washingtons military... It may not have been a piece that belonged to GW himself...... then again.. it very well could have
not totally true.... there are accounts of him surveying lands of Virginia that would eventually be Kentucky... Also....the Rev Gano that baptisted GW ended up In ...... Georgetown... Im not implying that he personal wore the buckle.... but the fact that it might have been made for him... by Pattison... and then passed on to others in his circle of confidants is quite the possibility. I have never once stated it was his "personal" buckle. As a popular figure in Colonial times im sure he was on the recieving end of many gifts.We also know that Washington never set foot in Kentucky.....
What people like to hear is the backstory. House built what year...found with...what?...been there x many times before or first time, that type of thing. Did you look for the other part, etc? Any dated coins? What detector were you using? That's all. Nothing about questioning the find itself.