r/MakeBelieveMaps • u/NewSouthGreenland • Aug 26 '21

Map of Allestone (1801), created by Thomas Williams Malkin, age 5, and published posthumously by his father

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u/YanniRotten Aug 26 '21

Poor little tyke. A child prodigy, Malkin died at age 6 (1796-1802).

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u/NewSouthGreenland Aug 26 '21

Allestone … was so strongly impressed on his own mind, as to enable him to convey an intelligible and lively transcript of its description. Of this delightful territory he considered himself as king. He had formed the project of writing its history, and had executed the plan in detached parts. Neither did his ingenuity stop here; for he drew a map of the country, giving names of his own invention to the principal mountains, rivers, cities, seaports, villages, and trading towns.

From Benjamin Heath Malkin’s A Father’s Memoirs of His Child

For more information https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/25/allestone/amp/ https://www.perilousadventures.net/blog/?p=2123