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Slopmaker Cripps

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  1. Heat? Dress appropriately for the weather....linen garments, unlined, drawers for beeches and jackets/weskits cut a bit loose... This method was used all throughout the Southern colonies and the caribbean. A slave with an umbrella and/or fan helps a lot as well.... -Adam C.
  2. Bo, Those are absolutely wonderful! Thank you very VERY much! I can't wait to try them out (though we're on a firewatch at the moment here in Florida * grumble grumble *). -Adam C.
  3. 250,000 artifacts includes individuals nails, pieces of wood, individual pieces of small shot, etc.....it's actually not that big of a number for most wrecks that have been excavated for multiple seasons. -Adam C.
  4. Bo, Sounds great! I have examples of Spanish strikers for the period, but I am waiting to hear back from some of my colleagues to see if any were found here in Florida (the objective of the project is to get as close to the Florida material culture as possible...if that's generic period Spanish and a mention in some documents, that's fine...I just want to make sure there isn't a Florida example sitting in a museum somewhere that I somehow missed/forgot about). Will let you know what I find out, should be a couple days....dig season just kicked back in full-swing and communications slow down drastically as everyone is out in the middle of nowhere for days at a time. Cheers, Adam
  5. William, No need to apologize! This is just how the game/fates work. Honestly I shouldn't be spending money, but like you I found the style appealing to the eye. Bo, If you're going to have to make a new one from scratch, I really ought to do some more research first and get you to make me one that is perfect for the interp program I am putting together ( Spanish Franciscan in La Florida). Let me see what I can find, talk to some of my fellow archaeologists, and then I'll get back to you. How much do the fire-steels run? Also, since you have your own forge, do you happen to do knife blades as well? Still exploring various options and what not, but there's a possibility I might have to go the custom route for this knife I'm looking to add to the above mentioned kit as well. If I have to go custom, then I'd like to go with someone on FF or here on the Pub just to "keep it in the family" as it were...but like I mentioned, I am still just exploring options regarding it at the moment. Cheers, Adam
  6. * deleted * William Red Wake beat me to the punch while I was typing... ;-) -Adam C.
  7. Dang it, Foxe! You beat me to the punch....I've got a fiddle in the works myself! You did a grand job with it....is she a conversion or did you start from scratch? What did you use for the finish? It's pretty.... -Adam C.
  8. Most likely the slop contract weskits were solid stripes, not variegated like the now "traditional" ticking pattern, as most sailors shown in striped weskits are wearing solid stripes. Having said that, so far the earliest pics I have seen of that stripe pattern was 1680 in an English painting (a banyan) and 1712 in a Spanish painting (as a mattress). Then there's a 1740s painting that shows the same style stripe being used on yet another mattress, but the central wide-stripe is even wider than what is traditionally used. Cheers, Adam C.
  9. A- Habit.... B-Because they're not just cute, but tasty...just wish there was more meat on them... -Adam
  10. See, the real problem is that you're classifying Oklahoma as the deep south....you've got about another 12 hours of driving eastward until you start getting into good moonshine country. I'll let others debate over which region produces the best shine (though these days Virginia gets the most publicity). As for making the stuff, well I won't go into any details, but if you're just looking for good general info then PBS did an awesome documentary on the process. They filmed an old shiner making the last batch in his lifetime and talking about the process....including comparing what he was doing with how his grand-daddy used to do it back in the day. I can't remember the name of it, but if you contacted PBS they could probably hook you up with a VHS. It's an enjoyable documentary whether you are into making shine or not. -Adam C.
  11. Check out Valentine & Sons seed company....Dave Valentine who runs the shop has recreated appropriate 18thC Dunghill fowls through re-breeding and just had his 2nd generation hatch a couple weeks ago. Cheers, Adam C.
  12. Umm...wouldn't the depth of water vary depending what tide it was/in between? It would be really hard figuring it out that way. Add to that that modern coastlines have changed drastically, sandbars have shifted, etc. etc. -Adam C.
  13. One thing to keep in mind with the runaway ads is that terms like "long" and "short" are relative....and changed throughout the 18th century. So even if it says he wore his own hair long, what that length would be in say 1736 compared to 1770 may be two different animals. Will have to dig them up again, but there have been a number of good articles adressing this whole long versus short hair topic for the RevWar era crowd...and while they post-date the GAOP, they do raise some interesting points that should be considered when looking at hair during the earlier part of the century. -Adam C.
  14. Korisios, I have never seen a reference to the Burgundian cross being used on cartridge boxes or even cast into plates....only used on the Flag. If you have found reference to the emblem being used in another context, I would be very interested in what you have come across. Cheers, Adam C.
  15. Doesn't seem to be any evidence for it until the later decades of the 18th century among seamen. I'm with Fox, we'd be really interested if someone could provide a primary source of queues that early, but he hasn't found anything, nor have I. -Adam C.
  16. No....don't sell your kit. Take a vacation, and in 6 months to a year you'll start reading something and suddenly get the urge again. This phenomenon happens to me ALL the time...and EVERY time I regret having sold my previous kit.... -Adam C.
  17. Korisios, I was actually going to be doing a similar project for my "La Mision" project, just a bit earlier and less piratey (1595-1702). The project involved me recreating one of the Franciscan friars that established the mission system here in the Southeast US in exacting detail (as in I was going to tonsure my head, handweave the cloth for the habit, repro and hand-bind books, etc), and do various public history programs, workshops, and school programs. But, that project which was suppose to start on Jan. 1st. has gone on the back burner as mid-December I got the call telling me that I was accepted to Grad school in Michigan and will be moving in a few months. As for digitalized stuff, everything I have at the moment on here is pertaining to the Florida missions and the friars. This is partly because of the La Mision project, and partly because I was working as an archaeologist on a couple mission sites right before I injured my back. I did more general 18th century documents during my undergrad, as I was studying Spanish paleography as an independent study with one of the professors (BA in History/Anthro at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fl), but I no longer have any of those saved digitally. Do you read Spanish? The 1608 picture I posted was a scan from the AGI in Spain, where they've scanned a bunch of their collection that is searchable online. Some of the libraries over there have started scanning books and what not as well, so you might be able to find one you can clean up, print out, and bind up. There for a little while I was going to try and do that for a copy of Don Quixote, but never found a scanned copy that was really usable at the time....maybe I should look for one again.... BTW I'm almost certain there's more abbreviations for Guatemala but the ones I remember are (the ^ meaning it's written above the level of the word): (guat^la) and (quaL^a). Also, if you DO read Spanish but want to get into trying to read the original handwritings...you will definitely want to get a copy of A. Carlin's A Paleographic Guide to Spanish Abbreviations, 1500-1700 (Una Guia Paleografica de Abreviaturas Espanolas). It was a god send when I was doing the independent study... and while the guide cuts off at 1700 for the handwriting examples she uses for the abbreviations, the abbreviations themselves continued to be used up until the mid-18th century when things started getting squirrely again. Cheers, Adam C. P.S. You probably didn't know I was into this stuff as I tend to keep things pretty quiet these days...usually too busy to do more than lurk around on here ;-).
  18. Korisios, Like with all handwriting, there's some that's neater than others...but this is the kind of thing Spanish paleographers have to deal with when in the 17th and 18th centuries: http://pyracy.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=viewimage&img=4193 Now you know why it's been two years and I still haven't finished some of these translations... Cheers, Adam
  19. From the album: Spanishey Stuff

    1608 Spanish Handwriting

    © © Pyracy.com 2002 - 2010

  20. Korisios, I just have the English transcription copied out of the book cited (I no longer have access to the book). It is possible to translate it back into Spanish and include all the crazy abbreviations and what not the Spanish were fond of, but I am way over loaded with projects at the moment and am hesitant to take anything else on at the moment. I still have documents from two years ago that I haven't finished transcribing and translating...ugg... -Adam C.
  21. Yes I do....here's a 1729 Commission for a Spanish Guarda Costa operating out of Havana: Commission of a Spanish Guarda Costa 16 April 1729 By Don Dionysio Martines de la Vega, Brigadier in His Majesty's army, His Governor and Captain General of this city of the Havanna, and island of cuba &c. Whereas Captain Don Felix Joseph da Costa Hurtado junior hath made his request to me, that I would grant him liberty in the same manner as has been done to other Captains fitted out to sea in a warlike manner as privateers to cruise on the seas on the coasts, havens, bays, or anchoring places round the island of Cuba; Now know ye that by virtue of the power and authority granted unto me in a schedule of the 6th of June 1728, and a written order of the 20th of November 1727 from the most illustrious lord Don Joseph Palmo, of His Majesty's Council, Secretary of State, Marine, and the Indies; Also having weighed the several good qualitys, as well of valour, experience, and practice, not only in naval but in military affairs conspicuous in the above mentioned captain; and he being actually in possession of a sloop now in this port called the Santa Rita, and the souls armed with six guns, six patereros, seventy musquets, with ammunition proportionable, carrying eighty men completed and victualled; By these presents, in the royal name of His Majesty, (whom God preserve), and in conformity to the above mentioned schedule royal and written order, I constitute and name the said Captain Don Felix de Hurtado, and do hereby authorise him to arm out in a warlike manner the said sloop, whereby he may exercise that office or function in that sloop or embarcation, which he shall think necessary to depute or substitute against those who shall traffick in these seas, loaded or loading with logwood or other woods for dying, in the ports, and upon the coasts of our lord the king, and against any other embarcations who shall introduce or trade in prohibited goods, as well under sail as at an anchor, in the ports, bays, or other places frequented by any shipping upon the island of Cuba; And in the same manner, if he shall find upon the said coasts any notorious pirates that do infest the same, he has in that case liberty granted him to levy men in that same place, as well as in any other parts of this island, by publick proclamation in conformity to the usual practice; And having made capture of any prise or prises, he is either to send them or bring them to this port of the Havanna, having no lawful impediment to the contrary; and, after a judicial condemnation, the whole value of the prise or prises may be distributed between the captain and his people, and those at whose charge the privateer was fitted out; the enjoyment whereof I yield to them in conformity to the above mentioned royal orders; And for execution of the whole I grant unto them all necessary power and authority; And I do hereby strictly enjoyn all the men already levied for the abovementioned sloop to receive and obey for their captain, armed out as a privateer, the already mentioned Don Felix Joseph de la Costa Hurtado, and from this time forward, in the name of His Majesty, (whom God preserve), and by virtue of his royal authority I do appoint, and he is hereby appointed to use and to execute this his employ with all the essential privileges, enjoyments, and emoluments annexed thereunto, without the least diminution; And I ordain his orders to be obeyed, not only by writing, but by word of mouth, in the same manner as if they had been wrote or spoke to by myself under the penalty of severe chastisement to those who shall act anything to the contrary. And if by any accident of wind or weather he shall meet with any squadrons of ships of war of his Majesty, and if he shall arrive into any of the ports of his dominions, it is my request and desire of all general officers, judges, and courts of justice that they shall give all favour and assistance that may be asked and thought needful for the abovementioned Captain fitted out in a warlike manner, taking care that he may be supplied with ammunition and provisions at the currant prices at the places where he shall arrive. And having given, and being also offered for his security Don Miguel d'Isagora, a substantial person inhabiting near this town, the same received before and executed in the presence of the principal secretary of the said captain, by virtue of this patent, may carry the colours usually carried by virtue of such a commission, which I have ordered to be delivered to him. Signed with my own hand, sealed with my own coat of arms, and countersigned by the secretary of the government and war, who is to enter a copy of the same in his office, and to make a remark at the bottom of it of the proffered abovementioned security, that the same may appear. Done at the Havanna, 16th of April 1729 N.S. Don Dionysio De Martines De La Vega Found in: R.G. Marsden, Documents Relating to the Law and Custom of the Sea. (London: 1916), II:270-273. -Adam Cripps (marinero de la flota de barlovento, estacianado en San Augustin)
  22. Dutch, Once you figure out which tunes you want to work on, post a list up here for the rest of us to take a look at....if I can get down next year, I would love to jam (should have a correct guitar, violin, and negro banjar finished by then...not sure how I'd integrate the banjar in with d'Urfey, but it could be interesting). -Adam C.
  23. Grymm, I'd be interested in seeing those references if you can email me at provincialnavy@yahoo.com . A pair of british style clogs has been on my project list for awhile (but not for naval stuff). Seeing the references might inspire me to bump them up my project list a bit. -Adam C.
  24. The term you're looking for is Miquelet lock. Cheers, Adam C.
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