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Title	Wilson Trade Gun
Subject	American Indians in Ohio Guns Firearms
Place	Piqua (Ohio) Miami County (Ohio)
Description	This 4.76" x 57.76" (12.1 x 146.7 cm) flintlock gun is made of walnut, steel, and brass and is decorated with a sea serpent or dragon side plate. It is fullstock with a 41 7/8" octagon and round barrel. Manufactured between 1760 and 1790 by Richard Wilson in England, this gun is characteristic of those traded to American Indians by the British at Pickawillany between 1747 and 1752. Pickawillany, a Miami town on the Great Miami River near present-day Piqua, was one of the largest Indian towns in the Ohio Country. The French, attempting to expel British traders from the area, attacked the village in 1752. Several American Indians were killed and British traders were taken to Detroit. After the attack, many of the American Indians left the village and moved west to present-day Indiana.
Creator	Wilson, Richard
Date of Original	1760 - 1790 circa
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) H 11179
Submitting Institution	Piqua Historical Area State Memorial
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om350_780065_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om350_780065_001.tif
Image Height	372
Image Width	2668
File Size	69.283 KB

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