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    "localId": "3f462s808",
    "label": "A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact ; yet doth it sufficiently shew the scituation of the countrey, and conveniently well the distance of places",
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    "title": "A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact ; yet doth it sufficiently shew the scituation of the countrey, and conveniently well the distance of places",
    "description": "This map was the first to be printed in the British Colonies, and though crude in appearance was for its time the best available map of the region. Based on a 1665 survey by Bostonian William Reed, it was repurposed by Foster to illustrate William Hubbard’s Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England. The Narrative described King Philip’s War of 1675-76, a horrific conflict between New England colonists and Algonquin Indians. By war’s end the native population had been decimated and dozens of colonial towns (shown numbered on this map) ravaged.",
    "date": "[\"[1677]\"]",
    "year": 1677,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:3f462s808",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_009269",
    "creators": [
        "Foster, John, 1648-1681"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "New England--Maps--Early works to 1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "New England",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
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        "Maps"
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    "extent": "1 map ; 31 x 39 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "The \"White hills\" version of the map.",
        "Probably engraved by: John Foster.",
        "State 2 with additional town symbol between Seaconk and Plimouth.",
        "In: Hubbard, William. A narrative of the troubles with the Indians. Boston. 1677."
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