Captain Oliver Pond's Hessian Fusiliercap: A Monograph
Worcester, MA: Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, 1986. First edition. wraps. First printing. 31 pp. plus addendum sheet laid in. Illustrated with photos andmanuscript reproductions. Fien, fresh, unused copy. The stroy of an American Revolution Hessian helmet, a Fusiliercap in military parlance, that was gifted to the Worcester Historical Society. It was appraised in an owner's estate for $10 and later sold to the Smithsonian for $10,000. Oliver Wentham Pond was a Massachusetts militiaman who is first recorded as being a captain of a company of Minute-men that marched on the alarm in April, 1775 to Lexington and Concord; he was commissioned a captain of the 20th Massachusetts in the Continental Army and was present at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Later he was a captain of a company during Shay's Rebellion and retired from the Massachusetts Militia as a general in 1796. Captain Pond acquired the helmet in some way at Trenton, it having been used by a soldier in the Rall Brigade of Hessians. Fine. Item #E31127
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