Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 7, 1820
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 100
Notes:
Sir William Jones (1746-1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European. He was buried in the South Park Street Cemetery outside Calcutta.
The donor may have been Rosewell Saltonstall (d. 1840?), a sailor from New London, Conn. who settled in New York and dabbled at being an amateur inventor. Madison Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-05-02-0084
