Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 1779
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 50v
Additional Source Text:
"The inside of a Sparry Substance, Shooting from the center to the circumference the outside rising in great number of Knobs & small cristals out of limestone water, detach'd from a very large cave on the Estate of Isaac Zane Esq near Marlboro' old Furnace, Frederick County, Virginia."
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.
