Plan of Deer Island
Item Information
- Title:
- Plan of Deer Island
- Creator:
- Taylor, William.
- Name on Item:
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survey'd for the Selectmen of Boston May 24th 1816 ... by me W Taylor.
- Date:
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1816
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center - Collection (local):
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
- Subjects:
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Deer Island (Mass. : Cape)--Maps, Manuscript
- Places:
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MassachusettsSuffolk (county)Deer Island (area)
- Extent:
- 1 ms. map : col. ; on sheet 55 x 104 cm.
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Scale:
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Scale ca. 1:2,640. 10 chains = 3 in.
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Manuscript map.
Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights.
Oriented with north toward the upper left.
"This is the plott of Deer Island and contains 208 acres ye whole."
"Copied from a plan in the Selectmen's office in Boston May 25th 1816 by me William Taylor. Supposed to have been surveyed one hundred years past [mem] the courses & distances not on the original but marked on by me W T."
"...the red lines show the form of the Island agreable to the above survey. [Supposing] about 100 years past - & allow the variation of the needle to be then 9 degrees west & at present 5 degrees."
- Identifier:
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06_01_005874
- Call #:
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G3762.B67 1816 .T39
- Barcode:
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39999059018117
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