Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 57v
Additional Source Text:
"Having on one Side the arms of the united provinces of the netherlands & round, concordia res parvae crescunt. 1764. on the reverse a warrior in armour holding a sword in his left hand and Suspended to his right the Shield of the Province of Zealand. MOR. NO. ARE. PRO. conf. belg. com. zeel."
Notes:
Pictured here is an 1768 example.
The donor was Benjamin Duffield, (1753–1799), the son of Philadelphia clock- and watchmaker Edward Duffield. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia (1771); completed medical courses there (1774), and went to Edinburgh to finish his training. He was a founding member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
