Watch List notes:

Revolutionary War-period branding iron marked 8 BRACKETT from Crown Point, New York. 427 grams, 18-1/4" long. Basically a long rod (cross-sectionally square) with ring at one end and flat bar with raised letters at other end, the surfaces aged but stable, with CROWN POINT / N.Y. painted in white on one side long ago. The number 8 before the BRACKETT refers to a quantity of boxes. A Titus Brackett was stationed at Crown Point in 1775 in General Wooster's regiment. He was probably with the commissary and involved with shipping stores for the attack on Ft. St. John (St. Jean) on the Richelieu River. The siege of that fort lasted from Sept. 17 till Nov. 3 under Gen. Montgomery, who was later killed in the attack on Quebec. The eastern American force was commanded by Benedict Arnold, who suffered a severe leg wound during the attack on Quebec.

Estimate: $200-300