Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 1778
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 26v
Additional Source Text:
"Very ponderous & partly mineralized with iron One Side of the Smallest of a glosy black colour of this province [Pennsylvania]."
Notes:
The donor, Stephen Payne Adye (ca. 1740-1794), was a captain (later a brevet-major) of the Royal Artillery who served in North America. He was the author of Treatise on Courts-Martial, to which is added an Essay on Military Punishments and Rewards (New York, 1769).
