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Catalogue reference: MPG 1/425
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This record is about the 1 item (enclosure to Lieutenant Governor Hamilton's despatch of 6 June 1785) extracted... dating from 1785 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 1/425
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1785
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (enclosure to Lieutenant Governor Hamilton's despatch of 6 June 1785) extracted from CO 42/47 (folio 665). North America. A map of the continent from Lake Huron to the Pacific, north of 40°N, showing place-names, lakes, rivers, mountains, the distribution of native American tribes, notes on country, and points reached (with dates) by individual explorers including Peter Pond and Thomas Frobisher. Scale: about 1 inch to 115 miles. The map may be based on information supplied by Peter Pond but is not his work. An earlier letter from Hamilton of 9 April 1785 (CO 42/47, folio 329) is relevant.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 50.5 cm x 73.4 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 80
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981114/
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