The Fort

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Artifacts known to have been excavated from the site of Fort Massachusetts:

• Headstone of Elisha Nims (and four other small headstones with no inscriptions.)
• Musket balls
• Indian arrow-heads
• Metal tomahawk
• Muzzle of a small cannon
• Several bombshells (?)
• Pieces of pots and kettles, broken bottles, a silver spoon with a very large and nearly round bowl, strongly-made but badly rusted jackknives and cartloads of brickbats are among these curious and suggestive mementos found and distributed by Captain Clement Harrison, who purchased the land in 1830.
• two rusty cannon balls
• a handful of flint arrowheads
• a rusty wrought-iron door latch
• a pewter fork and spoon, two old knives
• a coin dated 1725
• several uniform buttons

Sources:

• "Origins in Williamstown," by Arthur Latham Perry -- Published 1894