Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 45v
Additional Source Text:
"NB I had one before but Stretched out See 46a Catalogue." Catalogue not found; for Du Simitière's Mar 1779 acquisition, see the entry for "A curious petrification representing a kind of Naked Snail divided lengthwise in three ridges & channelled transversally, in a flint."
Notes:
The donor, Charles Logan (1754-1794), was the son of William Logan and grandson of James Logan. He owned a plantation in Virginia and in 1788, after promising to manumit nine of his slaves in Pennsylvania, took them there and sold them. See George William Van Cleve, A Slaveholders' Union: Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 2010), p. 82.
