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    "title": "[Plan showing wharves of Boston from Batterymarch Street to Fleet Street; the \"circular line\" limit of wharves; and the Barricado, with gaps]",
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    "date": "[\"[1820?–1829?]\"]",
    "year": 1820,
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_005879",
    "creators": [
        "Sheafe, Jacob."
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        "Title suppled by cataloger.",
        "Oriented with north toward the left.",
        "Reduced copy made by Caleb H. Snow from a copy in possession of John R. Adams.",
        "On verso: \"The Rep. of the Com. of 1763 states that they bound with the record of the town a plan of the line of defence and of the cove within the same taken by Jabob Sheaf by order of the [Sec] in 1708. This plan [redrawed] from one in possession of J.R. Adams Esq. Caleb Snow.\""
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