Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 46v
Additional Source Text:
"Ttapering on the inside towards the middle where there is a round hole about an inch 3/4 diameter. This Stone which I take to have been Some Sort of play thing of the Indians either to roll or to throw was dug out of a field near Some indian graves, near Shanandoa river in Frederic county 8 miles from Marlboro' Iron Works in Virginia, another large of white marble broken in two was found at two different times at the same place."
Notes:
The donor was Isaac Zane, Jr. (1743-1795), a Philadelphia Quaker who had moved to the Shenandoah Valley about 1767, owned and operated the Marlboro Iron Works about twelve miles south of Winchester, Virginia. During the war years Zane manufactured four- and six-pound cannon, shot, kettles, salt pans, and stoves for the American forces. He also served in the House of Burgesses from 1773 to 1776, the Virginia conventions from 1774 to 1776, and the general assembly from 1776 to 1795.
