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Complete Record for Item NS11 M18.4.8

Core Fields

Title:[Map showing Moose, Restook, Kennebec, and Penobscot Rivers and viciniy]
Item Type:Maps
Date:1821
Union Title Canada-U.S. border surveys, pursuant to the Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Call Number NS11 M18.4.8

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Burnham, Hiram

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: "Sketch referred to in my report[,] C. Campbell, Assist. Survr."; "filed by the Agent of His B[ritannic] Majesty [signed] S. Hale, Secy."
Extent: 1 manuscript map
Dimensions: 45 x 58 cm.
Medium: black ink and black wash on paper, backed with paper
General_note: Two series of maps were prepared ca. 1820 for the disputed-boundary negotiations that took place in 1824: the 10-map British series (NYHS maps 2461-2465 and 2500-2504, with a uniform database title "Disputed Maine-Quebec boundary in the 1783 Treaty of Paris") and the 27-map American series (NYHS maps 4200-4217, 4784-4753, and 8937-8939, with a uniform database title "Canada-U.S. border surveys, pursuant to the Treaty of Ghent")--q.v.

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New England

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