Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 19, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 87
Additional Source Text:
"N.Y., June 12, 1817" [presumably when and where the donation was made]
Notes:
This specimen was fibrous gypsum.
The Bauduy family of France settled in Saint-Domingue, and then fled to Philadelphia in 1791 at the time of the slave uprising, settling in Delaware. Dorothy Garesché Holland, The Garesché, de Bauduy, and Des Chapelles families: history and genealogy (St. Louis, 1963)
The Peale Museum received another specimen of this mineral from Derbyshire in December 1817 from John Bradburry. Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 90
