GUEST: I brought a powder horn from the Revolutionary War owned by Levi Greene.

APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.

GUEST: He was a patriot in the Revolutionary War.

Belongs to me right now, but it's part of the Greene heritage.

My late husband, it was his great-great-great grandfather, Levi Greene.

He was born in the 1700s.

He came in from Massachusetts, but he settled right in this area, West Bloomfield, Michigan.

They developed a farm there.

1832 is when they came and settled into Michigan.

The farmhouse is still there, and the barn, but everything else is developed.

APPRAISER: He died in 1851.

GUEST: Yeah, 94 years old.

Levi Greene was cousin to General Nathanael Greene.

APPRAISER: Who most people who study the Revolutionary War know.

So it says "Levi Greene, his horn, who enlisted in the Continental Service"-- all the great misspellings it should have-- "to range in the county of Albany in the year 1776.

Under Lieutenant Jackson."

I looked up his pension records and he left a great description of his service.

GUEST: Oh, yeah.

APPRAISER: Yeah.

He came through Rhode island... GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: ...and then into Massachusetts.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And he lived in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, which is out by the New York border.

In July of '76, he went into service as a ranger and he was around Albany.

And it says that they were searching for Tories and protecting property.

So what they were doing is they were looking for people who were loyal to the king still and arresting them.

GUEST: Oh... APPRAISER: And then because Loyalists were-- Tories were raiding the area, so they wanted to protect the area from those people.

In the early stages of 1777, he was drafted into the Massachusetts militia and he ended up in Vermont.

And at the Battle of Bennington on August 16, 1777, um, he fought in the battle.

And during that battle, they killed and captured a bunch of Hessian German troops.

And he mentions helping the dead and dying off the battlefield that day.

He helped take the prisoners back towards Lanesborough, Mass.

He ended up living in New York after the Revolution, and as you said, he moved out this way.

I didn't expect to see something like this.

I'm from Massachusetts... GUEST: Oh!

APPRAISER: ...and I didn't expect to see a horn carried by a guy from Mass here, which is fantastic.

It's made from cow, um, with a pine plug.

And as far as it being carved by Levi, it's hard to say-- it could have been, but there were people in the camps who were paid to carve horns for people that had artistic skills.

And the size is kind of small.

GUEST: Oh, okay.

APPRAISER: The regulations in Mass Militia were that they were to hold a pound of powder, and this one couldn't hold a pound.

GUEST: Probably didn't.

Probably didn't.

APPRAISER: It has the perfect patina.

GUEST: Is that right?

APPRAISER: Yes.

The color, the carving, everything is beautiful on it.

Now, it does have a little bit of damage.

You can see the cracks here on the spout.

And this screw was added at a later date.

You can also see two little nubs right here.

Those are from an iron wire loop which would have been on here originally to hold a strap so he could sling it over his shoulder.

The value of these horns is based upon, um, where they fought, who the person was.

Even with the condition issues, it has a value at auction of $4,000 to $6,000.

GUEST: That's awesome.

APPRAISER: Yeah, it's-it's-it's really good.

GUEST: Wow.

APPRAISER: I would insure it for $8,000.

GUEST: Oh, I will do that, thank you, I appreciate that.