This rifle is a replica of that owned by Jack Hart. Hart was an enslaved African American owned by Capt. Nathaniel Hart. Jack Hart was present at the Sycamore Shoals purchase of Transylvania and helped construct Fort Boonesborough. He was emancipated in 1803 by Nathaniel Hart, Jr. Hart's rifle was loaned and lost at the Battle of Blue Licks. In 1846, a resolution was offered in the Kentucky legislature to replace Hart's rifle. In 2005, this rifle was made as the replacement. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.