Rock Fragment
- Object Name:
- Rock Fragment
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.02
- Place of Origin:
- Plymouth, MA
- Description:
- Small rock fragment, tied to paper card with thread. Gray crystalline rock, probably igneous. Card inscribed in ink, "Clarks Rock / Piece of rock from / Clark's Island, Plymouth, Mass. / where the Pilgrims spent / their first Sabbath Dec / 21, 1620 - and / had worship conducted / by Gov. Carver." Reverse of card inscribed, "Presented by / Mrs. Leroy S. Brown / Cambridge / Mass."
- Material:
- Stone
- Dimensions:
- H-0.5 W-0.4 L-0.6 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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