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Clark, Julia Hancock (William Clark’s wife) search.Brown, William collector at New Orleans search.American Philosophical Society and mastodon bones search.Holmberg, ed., Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 133–4n, 193). your family: Clark had married Julia Hancock early in January 1808, and their son Meriwether Lewis Clark was born on 10 Jan. Clark’s bill of lading ( MHi) is also dated 2 June 1808. In December 1807 TJ had requested that Clark send him these duplicate fossils, which Clark had originally left in Kentucky with his brother George Rogers Clark (TJ to William Clark, 19 Dec. In his favor of 2 June 1808 ( MHi), carried most of the way by his brother-in-law Denis fitzhugh and not delivered until 10 July 1809, Clark wrote that during his impending move from Louisville to Saint Louis he would drop off three boxes of bones at Fort Massac for shipment to New Orleans. description ends DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, 1928–36, 20 vols. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. He settled in Saint Louis in 1807, serving as superindendent of Indian affairs from that year until his death, with concurrent stints as governor of Missouri Territory, 1813–21, and brigadier general of militia ( ANB description begins John A. William Clark (1770–1838), soldier and explorer, was a Virginia native who served as mapmaker and effectively as joint commander of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803–06. I wrote lately to the Governor, but be so good as to repeat my affectionate attachments to him & to be assured of the same to yourself with every sentiment of esteem & respect. the world has, of right, no further claims on yourself & Gov r Lewis, but such as you may voluntarily render according to your convenience or as they may make it your interest. while some may think it will render you less active in the service of the world, those who take a sincere interest in your personal happiness, and who know that by a law of our nature we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family, will rejoice for your sake as I do. this informs me that you have a family, & I sincerely congratulate you on it. You mention in your letter that you are proceeding with your family to Fort Massac. nature seems not to have provided other food sufficient for him & the limb of a tree would be no more to him than a bough of Cotton tree to a horse. these from their form & the immense mass of their jaws, satisfy me this animal must have been arboriverous. these have enabled them to decide that the animal was neither a Mammoth nor an elephant, but of a distinct kind, to which they have given the name of Mastodont, from the protuberances of it’s teeth. of those you had formerly sent me I reserved a very few for myself, got Doct r Wistar to select from the rest every peice which could be interesting to the Philosophical society, & sent the residue to the National institute of France.
the bones of this animal are now in such a state of evanescence as to render it important to save what we can of them. boxes I have not learned, but have written to mr Brown the Collector to have enquiry made after them. but the vessel put into the Havanna, under embargo distress, was there condemned as un-seaworthy, and her enrollment surrendered at S t Mary’s.
arrived there safely & were carefully shipped by the collector, & the bill of lading sent to me. for 1 me, as mentioned in your letter of June 2. the three boxes of bones which you had been so kind as to send to N.O. your donations & Governor Lewis’s have given to my collection of Indian curiosities an importance much beyond what I had ever counted on. for this as well as the blanket of Indian manufacture of the same material which you are so kind as to offer me accept my friendly thanks. mr Fitzhugh delivered the skin of the sheep of the Rocky mountain to the President, from whom I expect to recieve it in a few days at his own house. came duly to hand in July, and brought me a repetition of the proofs of your kindness to me.
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