Iron Pot

The iron fireplace cooking pot was given to the historical collection by Dr. Thomas R Morris. 

From everything he knows, about the pot, this iron cooking pot was brought over to America from England, by his ancestors. They arrived on the coast of New Jersey in 1677, disembarking from the good ship, Kent. The Morris family founded Morristown, New Jersey. He has in his possession, a survey of the first farm. The surveyor, Adjonih Peacock. The man who supplied munitions for the revolution. 

The small ship had little room for tools, outside our household, for any type. They had to farm around the stumps of felled trees with just hand instruments. They used the trees to build log cabins... One log on top of another, the cracks filled with mud. Their first structure was a fireplace chimney with chains attached to each side, that attached to the iron cooking pot. Fire was built under the pot and food for sustenance (meat, veggies, etc.)  were cooked together, dished out with a big spoon (and some people think that "pot pies" they buy into today's grocery store are something new). My own grandmother who died in her late 60's still cooked using a large pan in the oven... A big pot pie, meats, and vegetables cooked together. It's just a matter of seasoning to make such food good, but these hardworking farm people, who later moved to eastern North Carolina thank God for every meal for the blessings of food and freedom. 

This old iron pot is mostly worn out. It appears that someone attempted to use it as a flower pot. We know that some ancestors of Puritan pioneers that had no appreciation at all for their DNA or ancestry. Dr. Morris is one who does. Having kept many antiquarian hand-downs from the early farms. 

This 87-year old veteran (Korean conflict) rejoices in the love of God for his family and for the knowledge he has gathered all over the world from those who are the true survivors.