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A spear from Otahitee

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 30, 1794

Primary Source Reference:

Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 30 May 1794

Notes:

John Rossiter (d. 1810) was captain of the ship China. In 1809 he was a trustee of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Philadelphia. (Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, 8, 1 [March 1897]: 90)