Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 1781
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 59r
Additional Source Text:
"Consisting of Specimens of Quartz, Spath, iron, lead & cobalt ores, mundick, &c. together with others."
Notes:
The Lièvre River in western Quebec flows south from the Mitchinamécus reservoir and empties into the Ottawa River at Masson-Angers.
Mercier also gave Du Simitière a Journal of a Trading Expedition up the Rivière des Livres, or Rivière des Outaiouais in Canada in 1775 and a map of the river.
The donor may have been the John Mercier who was master of the brigantine William in 1776 and a volunteer with the Charleston battery who became a prisoner of war following the successful British siege of Charleston in the spring of 1780. See Benjamin Lincoln to George Washington, 25 Jan 1781, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-04655. [This is an Early Access document from The Papers of George Washington]; and https://awiatsea.com/pl/am/American%20Prizes%20January%201776/William%2…
