Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
Notes:
Fossil salt is another term for rock salt, or salt mined from mountain interiors rather than from the sea.
The donor may have been Henry Benbridge (or Bembridge) (1743-1812), a Philadelphia-born portrait painter who had settled in Charleston, S.C. He had been elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1771.
