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1 item (enclosure to Governor Robert Dinwiddie's letter of 29 January 1754) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/118
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- MPG 1/118
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1754
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1 item (enclosure to Governor Robert Dinwiddie's letter of 29 January 1754) extracted from CO 5/14 (142). Pennsylvania, Maryland. Map of the river systems from Fort Presque Isle on Lake Erie to the Potomac River, showing French Creek, Allegheny River, the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Great Beaver Creek, the Monongahela and the Youghiogeny Rivers. Showing place names, forts, settlements, Allegheny Mountains. A note on the map, enclosed in a square, describes the French purpose to advance from Lake Erie via French Creek to the Ohio and beyond and the British intention to build a fort at the junction of the Ohio and Monongahela. Scale: 1 inch to about 16 miles. Compass star. By George Washington.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- 47.8 cm x 37.6 cm
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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 2794 Reproduced in Washington's Map of the Ohio by Worthington Chauncey Ford (Boston, 1928).
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