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Complete Record for Item NS11 M18.5.2

Core Fields

Title:Map and section of Mars Hill and the river Restook...
Item Type:Maps
Date:1821
Union Title Canada-U.S. border surveys, pursuant to the Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Call Number NS11 M18.5.2

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Burnham, Hiram

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Notes

General_note: "...according to observations and surveys made by me in the year 1819 and referred to in my Report/A. Partridge/U.S. Surveyor"; "Filed with the Report [signed] S. Hale Secy."
Extent: 1 manuscript map
Dimensions: 56 x 73 cm.
Local_note: accompaied by: A: Index of the 30 surveys belonging to Canada-U.S. series (l p., encapsulated), showing "Numbers referred to in the U.S. Arguments" and "Numbers referred to in the British Arguments".
Collection: American Series "6"
Medium: black ink and black and color 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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