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Original and four copies of a plan of St John's, Newfoundland (now in Canada). (1)...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/581
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This record is about the Original and four copies of a plan of St John's, Newfoundland (now in Canada). (1)... dating from 1762-1966 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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MPH 1/581
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1762-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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Original and four copies of a plan of St John's, Newfoundland (now in Canada). (1) Copy of (2) by by F Gould, 20 November 1766. (2) 'Plan of the Harbour, Town and Fort of St. Johns in Newfoundland with part of the Country adjacent ...', showing operations of troops under Lt Colonel William Amherst against the enemy, 13-18 September 1762. Reference table to operations. Scale: 1 inch to 800 feet. Compass indicator. Surveyed and signed by Hugh Debbieg, Capt, Engineer on the expedition. (3) Dummy sheet inserted by the Public Record Office in 1966 to explain the absence of the map. (4) Copy of (2) by William Test, 3 December 1763. (5) Copy of (2) by J Adams, RMSD, 1810. (6) Copy of (2) by G. Williams, RMSD.
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MPH 1/581/3 was a copy of this map drawn by Debbieg himself. It was presented in February 1966 to the Newfoundland Naval and Military Museum, Canada, under section 6 of the Public Records Act 1958: see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1877
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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)
- 76.2 cm x 86.4 cm
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:9600
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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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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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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 947
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4562388/
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MPH 1
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Original and four copies of a plan of St John's, Newfoundland (now in Canada). (1)...
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