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Post by artificer on Sept 24, 2023 2:07:30 GMT -7
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Post by J Rockhill on Oct 7, 2023 18:31:16 GMT -7
Gus, I read with interest your Jan 2020 Blog - Shot Pouch, Cartridge Pouch, Shot Bag, Ball Bag, or what? from three years ago. I realize my input here is not the same subject, but I didn't know how else to let you know this interesting "antique" word that apparently has come down in my family.
Mother would say, "I'm going shotpotchin'. We children knew that she meant she was leaving in the car to go looking for something at different stores with no particular item in mind. I asked her one day where that word came from. She replied, from the Finleys, which meant my great-grandfather Finley whose own grandfather had been born in 1763 and had lived in VA, KY, and lastly in TN. He died in 1850.
I never could find the word shotpotchin' in a google search, but one day I realized that shotpotchin' had actually been shot pouch, several generations ago.
So my Scots-Irish ancestor was heading out to go hunting and was carrying his rifle, shot pouch, and gun powder bag or horn. He wasn't sure he'd bag anything, but he was just going looking. Thanks for your very interesting blog.
J Rockhill
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Post by artificer on Oct 9, 2023 17:53:11 GMT -7
Wow, J Rockhill,
Glad you enjoyed my earlier posts.
I found it extremely interesting and had no idea a word like "shotpotchin'' still existed in common use anywhere in recent years.
We still use phrases like "going off half cocked" from our period of interest, though I doubt most folks today have any idea of the origin.
BTW, I have to really tip my hat to forum member Spence, from who I learned years ago that "Shot Pouch" was the more correct 18th century term for a "hunting bag" and along with other forum members, more period correct terms for other 18th century items.
Gus
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