Category: History - American
"Iron seemeth a simple metal, but in its nature are many mysteries," wrote Joseph Glanvill, a seventeenth-century English churchman. To the contrary, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, two centuries later, found nothing mysterious about the worker in iron. His brawny blacksmith (long...
John Brush was the earliest Williamsburg smith whose name is known today. He was primarily a gunsmith and armorer, but may have done blacksmithing too. He bought two lots in the...
1. Part 1"Iron seemeth a simple metal, but in its nature are many mysteries," wrote Joseph Glanvill, a seventeenth-century English churchman. To the contrary, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...
3. Part 3_John Brush_, 1717-1726. Primarily a gunsmith; may also have engaged in the blacksmith's trade. Thought to have been a protégé of Governor Spotswood because he did "work and rep...