This plan represents within the red lines twenty two townships of land situate between the million acres located on the River Kennebeck and Newhampshire line : surveyed for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the subscribers AD 1794. Also a small gore or triangular piece of land at the southwest corner of the million acres together with the lakes, ponds, rivers and streams theirin as also some marginal representation of the adjoining lands all by actual survey and here delineated by a scale of two miles to an inch and inscribed to the committee for sale of eastern lands by their obedient humble servants

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Title:
This plan represents within the red lines twenty two townships of land situate between the million acres located on the River Kennebeck and Newhampshire line : surveyed for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the subscribers AD 1794. Also a small gore or triangular piece of land at the southwest corner of the million acres together with the lakes, ponds, rivers and streams theirin as also some marginal representation of the adjoining lands all by actual survey and here delineated by a scale of two miles to an inch and inscribed to the committee for sale of eastern lands by their obedient humble servants
Description:
Subject: Map of the area in northwestern Maine along the New Hampshire border. Shows plots for towns near the Androscoggin River watershed.
Contributor:
Perham, Lemuel, 1764-1833
Creator:
Ballard, Ephraim
Name on Item:
Ephm. Ballard, Lemuel Perham surveyors. Hallowell County of Lincoln Octor. 10th 1794.
Date:
[1794]
Format:
Maps
Manuscripts
Location:
American Antiquarian Society
Collection (local):
American Antiquarian Society Collection
Subjects:
Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)--Maps
Maine--Maps
Places:
Androscoggin River
Maine
Extent:
1 ms. map : ink and watercolor ; 75 x 54 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/6108vv057
Terms of Use:
Public Domain/No known restrictions on use. Contact host institution to download image.
Contact host institution for more information.
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:126,720]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://catalog.mwa.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=490453
Notes:
At top: Commonwealth's land.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.

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