Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1783
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 69r
Notes:
This starfish may have come from Black Point, N.J., a peninsula about five miles north of present-day Atlantic City.
The donor, Thomas Mifflin (1744-1800), was an American merchant, soldier, and politician from Philadelphia. He was the first Governor of Pennsylvania (1790 to 1799).
