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1 item (enclosure to Wright's letter of 10 August 1773) extracted from CO 5/662 (f...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/2
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Wright's letter of 10 August 1773) extracted from CO 5/662 (f... dating from 1773 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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MPG 1/2
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1773
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1 item (enclosure to Wright's letter of 10 August 1773) extracted from CO 5/662 (f 132). North America. 'A Map of the Lands Ceded to His Majesty by the Creek and Cherokee Indians at a Congress held in Augusta the 1st June 1773.... Containing 1616298 Acres'. Showing area between the Ogechee and Savannah Rivers, Georgia. Description of natural produce and soil given. Scale: 1 inch to 200 chains. Compass indicator. Title in rococo cartouche surmounted by the Royal Arms and flanked by American Indians. Copy drawn by Philip Yonge, Deputy Surveyor. Notes on the map in Sir James Wright's hand, one about extending the western boundary to include about 30,000 acres of 'extraordinary fine land'.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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105.7cm x 74.9cm
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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 2377. Described in William P Cumming, The Southeast in Early Maps third edition, revised and enlarged by Louis De Vorsey, Jr (Chapel Hill and London, 1998), entry 440B.
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