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Bengal Maize

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

June 4, 1817

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 86

Additional Source Text:

"Sent to the farm" [i.e., Belfield?]

Notes:

Elijah L. Lawton (d. 1819) of Georgia graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1809. He served in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812. Horace Mather Lippincott, The University of Pennsylvania, Franklin's College (Philadelphia, 1919), p. 211