Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 2, 1802
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 4
Additional Source Text:
"Found 4 feet deep in a gravelly bottom near Black lick Creek, Kentucky, supposed to be a fish."
Found "by Mr. Clarke who gave them to Dr. McCorkle, by whom they were presented to the Museum."
Notes:
McCorkle was probably the Rev. Dr. Samuel Eusebius McCorkle (1746-1811), a founder of the University of North Carolina. Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary (Princeton, 1980), pp. 245-249)
"Mr. Clarke" may have been William Clark (1770-1838), who at the time of the donation (prior to his joining the Lews & Clark Expedition) was living at Mulberry Hill, his family's plantation near Louisville.
