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1 item extracted from CO 42/166. Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada) and United States...
Catalogue reference: MR 1/127
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This record is about the 1 item extracted from CO 42/166. Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada) and United States... dating from 1816 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to rolled storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MR 1/127
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1816
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item extracted from CO 42/166. Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada) and United States of America: New York. Map of the mouth of the Niagara River and part of Lake Ontario, showing land heights above the level of the river; lots laid out for land merchants, 1802 and 1809; shops, yards and engineers' quarters; the area of Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake) 'wantonly burnt' by the Americans, December 1813; and soundings. Also showing, in detail, the sites of: Fort Niagara, as in February 1815; Fort George, [c1816], with an indication of the area it covered in 1812 and surrounding American entrenchments as in 1813; and a proposed fort at Mississauga Point. Reference tables to the features of each fort. Scale: 1 inch to 200 feet. Compass indicator; south-west at the top. A note states: 'The Soundings and Bar of Niagara are Copied from a Plan surveyed and drawn by Mr. Chillingworth Master of HMS St. Lawrence 1815'. Inset: cross-section through the proposed fort; scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. Signed: Lieutenant-Colonel G Nicolls, Commanding Royal Engineers, 8 April 1816.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For other items extracted from CO 42/166 see MPG 1/457 MPG 1/690
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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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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 81.5 cm x 121.5 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:2400
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- MS, coloured
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- 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 1509
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4559154/
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