Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 59r
Notes:
Pictured here is a 1562 silver sixpence from the reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603).
The donor, Stacey Hepburn, was a Philadelphia and South Carolina merchant and ship owner active during the Revolution and in partnership with Robert Morris. See Clarence L. Ver Steeg, "Stacey Hepburn and Company: Enterprisers in the American Revolution," South Carolina Historical Magazine, 55, no. 1 (Jan. 1954): 1-5.
