Description:
Small, hand-drawn and colored map of "The World" with the inscription, "Executed By Hannah F. Peck Wilbraham / November / 1829." Born in Lyndon, Vermont, Hannah Peck (1816-1870) was the daughter of the Reverend Phine[h]as Peck (1780-1836) and Sallie (Pettigrew) Peck (1785-1868) who married in Lyndon in 1803. Phineas was an itinerant Methodist minister who moved around New England and New York State, and was living in Wilbraham in the 1820's where he was instrumental in attracting the Wesleyan Academy to establish itself permanently in Wilbraham (now the Wilbraham- Monson Academy). A printed school catalogue for the Fall term, October 1827, includes both Hannah and her older sister, Mary (b.1813), who were both listed as boarding at "Rev. P. Peck's"; unfortunately there are no catalogues for 1825, 1826 or 1829. The Academy catalogues note that "Ornamental Branches" were taught there. In 1834, Hannah married Frederick Field (b.1812) of Watertown, NY, next to Pamelia, NY, where the Peck family had moved. Frederick and Hannah moved to Elmira,NY, in 1841, and East Saginaw, Michigan, in 1861. The map, which was probably copied from an unidentified atlas or print, shows the interlocked western and eastern hemispheres, with the continents outlined in blue, yellow, light pink and green. The map is stretched between a molded slat at the top with two wire rings and a turned rail at the bottom.
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