Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 1778
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 30r
Additional Source Text:
"It is Small and broke in the middle when a hole was dug to insert the handle. it is not with a Sharp edge but a Square one like the back of a Knife which makes it very remarkable & very different from any I have seen before, found in a field about forty years ago not many miles from Philada."
Notes:
During the Revolution George Noarth was deputy commissary general of musters (1777-1778). Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-16-02-0119
