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    "title": "Map of the town of Methuen",
    "description": "Shows boundaries and landowners.",
    "date": "[\"[1806?]\"]",
    "year": 1806,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "NML_map_01",
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        "Barker, Stephen"
    ],
    "institution": "Nevins Memorial Library",
    "collections": [
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        "Methuen Historic Collection"
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    "subjects": [
        "Real property",
        "Landowners"
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        "Essex (county)",
        "Massachusetts",
        "Methuen",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
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    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Massachusetts",
    "county": "Essex",
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        "Shows boundaries and landowners.",
        "Oriented with north to the right.",
        "While dated 1795, the map shows the Boston to Concord, N.H. Turnpike, which was built in 1806. Barker likely pre-dated his map to comply with the Massachusetts General Court's order for towns to have maps made by 1795.",
        "Manuscript on verso: Plan of Methuen, 1748, recorded Octr. 1st 1797, book 106, leaf 120 -- Boston, Jany. 20d, 1807."
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