Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 26, 1809
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 39
Notes:
This specimen may have been arsenolite or claudetite.
The Kingdon of Ava comprised central and northern Burma (Myanmar).
The donor was Dr. Samuel Betton (ca. 1785-1850), born in Jamaica of British parents, who was living in Germantown, Philadelphia as early as 1800 and died in the city. He was Charles Willson Peale's family physician. He was a significant landowner in Jamaica and in 1835, following the 1833 abolition of slavery in most of the British Empire, was compensated £4251 17s 6d for 195 emancipated slaves / https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/14206
