Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
March 14, 1806
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 15
Additional Source Text:
The donor wrote in Oct 1805: "This Cliff appears to be at least Eight hundred feet above the Delaware which runs about half a mile from its Base. It is perpendicular in steps of many feet on its eastern side; but of a easy access on its western. The Rock is Crumbling to pieces, exposing to view Thousands of Peterifactions and impressions of shells. Although these petrifactions are very numerous, not only in the above mentioned District -- but all along the Highlands from the Delaware, to New Burgh on the Hudson. I found none of the Country people who had paid any attention to them."
Notes:
Milford is in Pike County, Pa. about 35 miles northeast of the Delaware Water Gap.
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
