Subject: gentleman officer

Culture: Colonial-Revolutionary Anglo-American

Setting: 13 Colonies, American Revolution, North America 18thc

Object: tricorn hat

Old State House Museum *

"Cocked Hat Belonging to Major Thomas Melvill

Oliver Wendell Holmes memorialized Melvill in his poem 'The Last Leaf' (ca. 1832),

which describes the patriot as the last Bostonian to wear a tri-cornered hat.

American, 18th century Felt, leather" ...

Williamsburg Clothiers of Virginia *