Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 22, 1817
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 85
Additional Source Text:
"Used in Bengal to build vessels of. This is a piece of a Vessel, which was in constant use upwards of 40 years with very little repairs."
Notes:
Pegu is now Bago, Myanmar.
Charles Whitlow (Whitlaw) was a botanist and inventor who came to America from Great Britain in 1794. By 1809 he was a nurseryman in New York City, selling shrubs and fruit trees imported from London. Jefferson Papers, Founders Online, National Archives / https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-04-02-0333 ; J. Leander Bishop, A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1868), 2: 181-182
