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1 item extracted from CO 5/91 (f 215). New York. Plan of the fort and surrounding...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/354
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from CO 5/91 (f 215). New York. Plan of the fort and surrounding... 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 1/354
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1773]
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from CO 5/91 (f 215). New York. Plan of the fort and surrounding land and buildings at Crown Point. Showing defence works, buildings, summerhouse and garden, village, old citadel, route from fort before explosion and return after it. Compass indicator at centre with lines showing the 32 points. With a note on the construction of the fort at bottom left-hand corner, and a further note stating that the plan was drawn from memory not from a survey. Originally enclosed with proceedings of a Court of Enquiry into the fort's destruction by fire.
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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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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 32.3 cm x 49.8 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2665
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981043/
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