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1 item (enclosure to Governor Sir H Moore's letter of 22 February 1767) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MPG 1/367
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Governor Sir H Moore's letter of 22 February 1767) extracted... dating from 1767 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 1/367
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1767
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Governor Sir H Moore's letter of 22 February 1767) extracted from CO 5/1098 (folio 433). New York. 'A Chart of Lake Champlain Exhibiting... the Claims of the French... and the Grants made to the English reduc'd Officers and disbanded Soldiers ...' The map shows place names and boundaries of French claims and English grants. Title on a rock face surrounded by drawings of animals (lion, wolf, wading bird, squirrel etc.) and a bird, with a camp, stream and woodland in the distance. Table of French seigniors and acreage claimed. In the bottom right-hand corner is a coloured drawing of a woman seated, holding a small child, while an older child stands by a small tree. The trunk is marked in divisions corresponding to the scale of 4 miles to an inch. Scale: 1 inch to 4 miles. Compass star. Drawn by Simon Metcalfe.
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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)
- 70.6 cm x 51.8 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 2655
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981056/
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