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Source Description
This map was used when East Sudbury separated from Sudbury by the General Court. The surrounding towns are Stow, Marlborough, Framingham, East Sudbury (now Wayland) and Concord. It shows country roads, town roads, dwelling houses with owners' names, and provides the number of acres of land, water and roads, distances between Concord Ctr., Cambridge and Boston as well as the length of miles the roads use. Ponds and streams are identified by name. This map is a copy of the original found at the Massachusetts Archives in their Maps and Plans number 2042.
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s4658308k
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Map of Sudbury, Mass.
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map
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Source metadata
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s4658308k
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map
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normalized
title
Map of Sudbury, Mass.
description
This map was used when East Sudbury separated from Sudbury by the General Court. The surrounding towns are Stow, Marlborough, Framingham, East Sudbury (now Wayland) and Concord. It shows country roads, town roads, dwelling houses with owners' names, and provides the number of acres of land, water and roads, distances between Concord Ctr., Cambridge and Boston as well as the length of miles the roads use. Ponds and streams are identified by name. This map is a copy of the original found at the Massachusetts Archives in their Maps and Plans number 2042.
date
["October 1830"]
year
1830
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
b39059376
creators
Wood, William Henry, 1802-1864
institution
Wayland Free Public Library
collections
Wayland Historical Maps and Plans
subjects
History
Land owners
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
Sudbury
United States
genreBasic
Maps
genreSpecific
Cadastral maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Middlesex
city
Sudbury
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1
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4t64gr105
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b5647c18s
schema:latitude
42.3833
schema:longitude
-71.4167
extent
1 map ; 63 x 47 cm
notes
Title from item or accompanying material.
Colonel William Henry Wood of Marlborough was listed in the Massachusetts Register for 1834. He served as a selectman in 1849 and 1850. He is thanked in the preface of Charles Hudson's history of Marlborough. In 1862, he was appointed to the "committee of ten for the aid and encouragement of the individuals or for the support of the families of the individuals composing the volunteer militia companies now raised or hereafter to be raised in this town to meet the calls of the Government." In 1864, a Special Statute of the Commonwealth discharging him from his duties as a justice of the peace within and for the county of Middlesex. After he was discharged from being a judge, he went to war.
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map
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1
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