Relic
- Object Name:
- Relic
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.07
- Place of Origin:
- Duxbury, MA
- Date:
- circa 1626
- Description:
- Small fragment of iron, tied to paper card with thread. Card inscribed in ink, "Iron from Axe of / Miles Standish, one of the / Pilgrim Fathers, who settled / in Duxbury in 1626 / Died there Oct. 3, 1656". Inscribed on reverse of card, "Miles Standish born 1584 / Given by / Mrs. Leroy Brown".
- Material:
- Metal
Iron - Dimensions:
- H-0.2 W-0.3 L-1 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
- People:
- Standish, Myles (c.1584-1656)
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