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    "label": "Map of Morris's Purchase or West Geneseo in the state of New York",
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    "title": "Map of Morris's Purchase or West Geneseo in the state of New York",
    "description": "This map demonstrates the process by which Americans expanded westward and took over Native American territories. Based on surveys by brothers Joseph and Benjamin Ellicott, the map promotes the Holland Land Company’s real estate interests in western New York, a territory previously occupied by the Seneca Indians and claimed by Massachusetts. The extensive pattern of squares delineates townships available for land sales and eventual American settlement. The smaller irregular tracts identify lands reserved for Native Americans. The Senecas relinquished their rights to these lands, except for the reservations, in a treaty negotiated in 1797.",
    "date": "[\"1804\"]",
    "year": 1804,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:8336h2645",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_007522",
    "creators": [
        "Ellicott, Joseph, 1760-1826"
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    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Real property--New York (State)--Maps",
        "Indian reservations--New York (State)--Maps",
        "New York (State)--Maps",
        "1800"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "New York",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States"
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        "Maps"
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    "pubPlace": "New York?",
    "publisher": "[Holland Land Co.?]"
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    "extent": "1 map ; 51 x 65 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "Shows Indian Reservations.",
        "Covers far western New York State.",
        "Includes statement of dedication dated 1804.",
        "This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=93."
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