Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 10, 1812
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 59
Notes:
From John Fanning Watson, Annals of Philadelphia, Being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents (Philadelphia, 1830), p. 374: “A society of gentlemen of Philadelphia, many years ago (said to be 100 years) had a house at the falls of Schuylkill, called Fort St. David, where they used to meet at fishing seasons, by public advertisement, beginning with the first of May, and continuing every other Friday during the season. Much good living was enjoyed there. The building, a kind of summer pavilion, stood on the descent of the hill, leading to the Falls bridge, at the position since excavated as a free stone quarry. A sketch of it, such as it was, is preserved in the Dickinson family, being on an elegant silver box, presented to John Dickinson in 1768, for his celebrated 'Farmer's Letters'. In the house and along its walls were hung up a great variety of curious Indian articles, and sometimes the president of the day was dressed in the entire garb of an Indian chief.”
