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A fragment of a Stone hatchet of the Indians of a Semi transparent Stone like white Soap

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