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    "title": "A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto",
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    "date": "[\"[1733]\"]",
    "year": 1733,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_004569",
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        "Popple, Henry, -1743"
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        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "North America--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Central America--Maps--Early works to 1800",
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        "Hudson Bay",
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        "Iowa",
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        "Kingston (county)",
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        "Massachusetts",
        "Middlesex (county)",
        "Mississippi River",
        "Nassau",
        "New Jersey",
        "New Providence",
        "New York",
        "Newfoundland and Labrador",
        "Niagara Falls",
        "North Carolina",
        "North and Central America",
        "Nova Scotia",
        "Perth Amboy",
        "Placentia Bay",
        "Port Antonio",
        "Portland (county)",
        "Puerto Rico",
        "Quebec",
        "Saint Augustine",
        "Saint Johns (county)",
        "Santiago de Cuba",
        "South Carolina",
        "United States",
        "Virginia",
        "West Indies",
        "Wisconsin"
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    "publisher": "W.H. Toms & R.W. Seale"
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    "notes": [
        "Relief shown pictorially.",
        "\"C. Lempriere inv. & del., B. Baron sculp.\"",
        "Accompanied by index map showing the whole assembled map.",
        "Boston Public Library copy contains manuscript notation on Carolinas/Florida sheet: \"Virginia - We know very well it hath often been said by the Virginians, that the great king of England, and the people of that colony, conquered the Indians who lived there, but it is not true. We will allow they have conquered the Sachdagughroonaw, and drove back the Tuscarroraws, and that they have, on that account, a Right to some Part of Virginia; but as to waht lies beyond the mountains, we conquered the nations residing there, and that Land, if the Virginians ever get a good Right to it, it must be by us...Speech of Tachanoontia, a chief of the six nations, at Lancaster in 1744, see Colden Histy. p 112.\""
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