Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 23, 1805
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 6
Notes:
Pierce Butler (1744-1822) was an Irish-born South Carolina rice planter, slaveholder, politician, and an officer in the Revolutionary War. He was a member of the Confederation Congress, a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, and a U.S. Senator. He resigned in 1804 and thereafter spent much of his time in Philadelphia, where he had established a summer home and where he later served as a director of the Second Bank of the United States and, in 1821, as a trustee of Peale's Museum.
Butler purchased the farm in present-day North Philadelphia that would be known as Butler Place in 1810, so the estate referred to here was presumably one of his many South Carolina and Georgia plantations.
