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Catalogue reference: MPG 1/5
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Major General Amherst's letter of 4 October 1760) extracted... dating from 1760 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 1/5
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1760
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Major General Amherst's letter of 4 October 1760) extracted from CO 5/59, f 278 or pp 554-8. Canada, Quebec: St Lawrence River. 'A sketch of the river St Laurence from La Gallette to the Island of Perrot with the Encampments of the Army, 1760'. Map showing place names (in French) and a dotted line indicating what is probably a route for boats. Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles. Compass indicators. Copied from a French map 'corrected as the Army came down the River'.
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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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- 40.6 cm x 141.0 cm
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- MS, coloured
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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 1939. Archival reference erroneously printed as CO 5/79, ff 554-8.
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