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'St John, River'. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile. British Boundary Commission's copy...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1930
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This record is about the 'St John, River'. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile. British Boundary Commission's copy... dating from 1843-1848. in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1930
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1843-1848.
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Description (What the record is about)
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'St John, River'. Scale: 12 inches to 1 mile. British Boundary Commission's copy of the survey to apportion the islands in the River St John, carried out under the terms of the Treaty of Washington, 9 August 1842. Bound volume, made 13 October 1843, containing twenty manuscript plans, prefaced by a list of islands with the countries to which each had been assigned. A red line drawn through the deepest soundings marked the boundary. Each map signed by Lieutenant Albert Smith and Colonel I B Bucknall Estcourt, United States and British Commissioners, and by 1st Lieutenant Thomas J Lee, Topographical Engineers and Captain W E Delves-Broughton, Royal Engineers. Longfellow and Featherstonhaugh, surveyors. Manuscript note at the beginning of volume: 'In Col. Estcourt's number. 48 31 Jany. 48'. For particulars see 38358 (F15494/1908)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 36 cm x 52 cm
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- MS
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 778
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3818494/
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Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans
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