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3 items (originally enclosed in: 'American Memorials', a volume setting out British...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/965
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This record is about the 3 items (originally enclosed in: 'American Memorials', a volume setting out British... dating from [1796] 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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- [1796]
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3 items (originally enclosed in: 'American Memorials', a volume setting out British and American claims concerning the United States boundary, 1796) extracted from FO 303/10. North America. 3 sketch maps detailing the coastline of Maine (then part of Massachusetts, United States of America) and New Brunswick (now in Canada) relating to a territorial dispute between Britain and the United States of America. (1) 'Extract from Capt. Cyprian Southack's Survey of the Coast': showing the coastline from "Mechisses" [?Machias] River to Saint John River, with soundings and islands; scale: 1 inch to about 7 miles; compass indicator. (2) 'Extract from Mitchel's map of North America': showing the coastline, with islands, rivers (including Kennebec, Penobscot, Saint Croix and Saint John Rivers) lakes, and the boundaries of the district (now the state) of Maine; scale: 1 inch to about 13 miles; compass indicator. (3) 'A True Transcript of a Plan detailing to Capn. John Mitchel Surveyor by His Excellency Francis Barnard Esqr. Governor of the Province of Massachusets Bay for the direction of the Social Surveyor': showing the area around the bay of Saint Croix, marking rivers and "Point Proe" [?Point Lepreau]; scale: 1 inch to about 7 miles. Dimensions: (1) 28.5 cm x 62 cm; (2) 30.5 cm x 44 cm; (3) 22 cm x 62 cm.
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- 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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