Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 14, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 14-15
Additional Source Text:
"West of the Chain of the Blue Mountains, and about 20 Miles N.W. of Newtown or Sussex Court House."
The donor wrote in Oct 1805: " Some of these stones were on elevations of 150 to 200 feet above the waters of the Delaware. Others were on heights of 700 or 800 feet; As were the Substances, that appear to be the Teeth of some Animal [blank] which were united in a large Stone, combined with small branches of Coral; (Madripore) Shell stones abounded on the field where these were fo[und]. The Soil was good for wheat."
Notes:
Present-day Sandyston, N.J. is about 16 miles north of Newton, N.J. near the Delaware River.
William E. Hũlings (1765-1839) was a Pennsylvanian who was appointed vice consul at the port of New Orleans in 1798. James Peale painted a miniature portrait of him in 1789. Madison Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-01-02-0185 ; Theodore Bolton, Early American Portrait Painters in Miniature (New York, 1921), p. 125
