Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 40r
Additional Source Text:
"Ornamented with curious work of porcupine quills died in the brightest colours having before a bunch of feathers dyed red & behind a long tail of brown feathers tied to a String ornamented with porcupine quills."
Notes:
Henry Laurens (1724-1792), merchant, planter, and a leading patriot of Charleston, S.C., was at the time of this donation a delegate to the Second Contrinental Congress (having served as President 1777-1778).
