Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 12, 1813
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 68
Additional Source Text:
"& dug up with a female Indian Skeleton, near Elizabeth town [Elizabethton], Tenn[esse]e."
Notes:
Rubens Peale acknowledged this donation on 3 Oct 1813, writing to Duffied, "It gives us pleasure to present to the public eye any articles which may at any future period shed a ray [of] Light on the subject of the aborigine of America." Seleected Papers, 3: 208
Elizabethton was located on or newear the sites of old Cherokee Indian encampments.
The donor was George Duffield (d. 1823), of the Philadelphia Duffield family, who moved west and was a founder of Duffield Academy in Elizabethton, Tenn., in 1806. He was a charter trustee (1807) of what became the University of Tennessee, served as a major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and declined an appointment to the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1816.
