Description:
'Thaddeus Bennett," Fort Number Four (Charlestown), New Hampshire, July 3, 1757. Thaddeus Bennett served in Captain Samuel Hubbell's 5th company, Colonel Phineas Lyman's Connecticut Regiment, during the campaign of 1757. He volunteered to serve in Captain Reuben Ferris's Company of Rangers stationed at Fort No. 4 during the winter of 1757-1758. Other horn owners who served in Captain Ferris's company include Ensign Zebulon Butler, Sergeant Ichabod French (#21), Nathaniel Selkrig (#24), Sergeant David Hamilton (#26), and Sergeant Isaac Whelpley (#33). The unidentified carver of the Bennett horn conformed to Lake George School calligraphic standards. He depended on deeply incised geometric designs, graceful floating-leaf and feather devises, and stylized vegetation and flowers. Only one figural element is present, a fish. "Bulletin," Fort Ticonderoga Museum, Vol. 12, no. 3 (October, 1967), 181-182; 52-53; 17.

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