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Complete Record for Item NS11 M18.5.3

Core Fields

Title:Plan of the exploring survey of 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 M18.5.3

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Burnham, Hiram

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: "...Made by direction of the commissioners under the fifth Article of the Treaty of Ghent in the Year 1819 with a sketch of the Country as viewed from Mars-Hill and the Vicinity of Houlton. Wm F. Odell, surveyor on the part of His Britannic Majesty"; Filed with the Report [signed] S Hale Secy".
Extent: 1 manuscript map on 2 joined sheets.
Dimensions: 79 x 68 cm.
Collection: American Series "7"
Medium: black ink and black pencil 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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