This plan of Kennebeck & Sagadahock Rivers & country adjacent
Item Information
- Title:
- This plan of Kennebeck & Sagadahock Rivers & country adjacent
- Title (alt.):
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Plan of Kennebeck & Sagadahock Rivers
Plan of Kennebeck and Sagadahock Rivers
- Creator:
- Johnston, Thomas, 1708-1767
- Contributor:
- Heath, Joseph
- Contributor:
- Jones, Phineas
- Contributor:
- North, John
- Contributor:
- Jones, Ephraim
- Contributor:
- Hutchinson, E.
- Contributor:
- Plymouth Company
- Name on Item:
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is most humbly inscribed by ... Thos. Johnston.
- Date:
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1754
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Location:
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Collection (local):
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Massachusetts Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
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Penobscot Bay (Me.)--Maps
New England--Maps
New York (State)--Maps
Maine--Maps
New Hampshire--Maps
Kennebec River--Maps
Kennebec Patent--Maps
Casco Bay (Me.)--Maps
- Places:
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MainePenobscot Bay
New York
New England (area)
New Hampshire
- Publisher:
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[Boston] :
Engraved, printed & sold by Thomas Johnston, Brattle Street, Boston, New England
- Notes:
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Latitude in degrees and minutes north from equator. Latitude and longitude also given for inset map.
Coordinates indicated.
Boundaries of British claims in yellow, green and red.
Title within decorative cartouche.
At head of title: To his Excellency William Shirley Esq. Capt. General & Governour in Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England.
Issued by Plymouth Company.
Includes three columns of text asserting grounds for British claims to sovereignty over province of Maine and controverting French claims.
Includes inset map of New England "chiefly taken from Monsr. Bellin's Map of North America published at Paris 1745."
Includes plans of Fort Western, Fort Hallifax [sic], and Fort Frankfort.
- Extent:
- 1 map : col. ; 84 x 61 cm.
- Scale:
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Scale 1:253,440
- Language:
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English
- Catalog Record:
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http://balthazaar.masshist.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&BBID=106609
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
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