Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
July 29, 1800
Primary Source Reference:
Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 29 July 1800
Additional Source Text:
"Dr. Charles Brown, an offcer in the continental service, has presented to Peale's Museum, a Canoe, made of Birch Bark. It measures 23 feet in length, breadth 4 feet, and 26 inches deep. Although of this large size, yet is so light that two men may carry it with ease. "This Canoe was constructed at Sayanan Bay, on Lake Huron. It carried 6 persons and 1200 weight of baggage across the Lakes. "The Doctor in coming down to New-York, passed a porterage of 25 miles, viz. 9 at the Falls of Niagara, and 16 at Schenectady and Albany. It was his intention to come round through the sounds and up the Delaware; but cold and bad weather induced him to have it carried from Brunswick to Trenton, from whence he descended the river to this city."
Notes:
Charles Brown had been commissioned a surgeon in the regiment of artillerists and engineers on 2 June 1794. Hamilton Papers, Founders Online, National Archives (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-23-02-0059-0002)
