Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
May 22, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 30
Additional Source Text:
"About five miles above the Delaware water Gap Walpac [Walpack] Township Sussex County New Jersey."
Notes:
Reuben Haines (1786-1831) was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer. An active member of the American Philosophical Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences, he kept a scientific cabinet at his home at Wyck House in Germantown, Pa.
