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ORDER THIS PIECE AS MPG 1/444. 2 items extracted from CO 42/94. Quebec. (1) Diagram...
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- MPG 1/445
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1793
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ORDER THIS PIECE AS MPG 1/444. 2 items extracted from CO 42/94. Quebec. (1) Diagram showing proposed township areas, with some encroaching on the height of land between Quebec and New Hampshire and Vermont. The diagram shows the townships of Woburn, Croydon, Stanhope, Emberton, Auckland, Drayton, Hereford and Clifton. Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles. Compass indicator. Signed by Samuel Holland, surveyor general, 16 June 1793. Enclosure to General Clarke's despatch noumber 76, July 1793. (2) Diagram showing proposed township areas, with some encroaching on the height of land between Quebec and New Hampshire and Vermont, with notes on the boundary and the course of the Connecticut River. The diagram shows the townships of Woburn, Croydon, Emberton, Auckland, Drayton, Hereford, Clifton, Barford, Compton, Barnston, Hatley and Stansted, with a space for the township named on (1) as Stanhope. Scale: 1 inch to 4 miles. Copy of an original signed by Hugh Finlay, chairman of the Land Committee 16 March 1793. Enclosure to General Clarke's despatch number 75, June 1793. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 26.5 cm x 37 cm; (2) 51 cm x 63 cm.
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MPG 1/444 and MPG 1/445 are in a single portfolio. The items are bound into the portfolio in the oder MPG 1/445/2 (at the head of sheet 1), MPG 1/444/2 (at the foot of sheet 1), MPG 1/444/1 (sheet 2), MPG 1/445/1 (sheet 3).
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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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- English
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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 1695
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3981134/
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