The Powder Horn

The Story of the Powder Horn

"Made at Lake George by Simeon Rovs in 1756, the horn traveled far before it arrived in Michigan by 1850.  It was found with a box of deeds (1788), and letters on the woodpile when my father attended his grandfather's funeral in 1890. "Barzilla" is carved in a written place on the horn and "Serj't or Clerke" Handee appears in the Jabez Fitch Diaries of 1757-1758...personal meetings as well as record keeping for the troops and provincial regiments.  He signed a deed in Connecticut in 1800 so had it at the time from where it passed to the family (Hendee, Hendy, Handy) for its trip west after 1835. Now at last it has found a haven at Lake George where it had its beginnings".

--Dorthea Handy Phipps 1994
Powder Horn donor