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Title:A map of the British and French dominions in North America with the roads, distances, limits and extent of the settlements...
Item Type:Maps
Date:1821
Union Title Disputed Maine-Quebec boundary in the 1783 Treaty of Paris
Call Number NS12 M7.2.8

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Notes

General_note: This map is a "corrected" copy of map 2461, q.v., whose notes, recto, are also here copied but with the following additional note: "This Map Filed on the 2d October 1821 by order of the Commissioners upon the approbation of His Majestys Agent. The names Casco Bay, Sagadahock Bay and Penobscot Bay and several other names of places upon the Sea Coast being omited [sic] in the Copy of this Map filed on the 14th August 1821. N.B. The Red line is not upon the Original Map."
Extent: 1 manuscript map
Dimensions: 46 x 83 cm.
Medium: black and color ink on tracing paper, backed with paper
Series: British series "K"
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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