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    "label": "[An unfinished tracing of Joshua Fisher's copy on parchment of Oliver's paper plat of land in Dorchester, made in 1661]",
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    "title": "[An unfinished tracing of Joshua Fisher's copy on parchment of Oliver's paper plat of land in Dorchester, made in 1661]",
    "description": "Title from printed catalog card.",
    "date": "[\"[1880?–1889?]\"]",
    "year": 1880,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_005877",
    "creators": [
        "Oliver, John, of Dorchester"
    ],
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    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
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        "Dorchester (Boston, Mass.)--Maps, Manuscript"
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        "Dorchester",
        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
        "United States"
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        "Title from printed catalog card.",
        "Oriented with north toward the lower left.",
        "Manuscript map.",
        "Tracing of earlier map, probably executed in late 19th century.",
        "\"This plat was drawne out [from] a paper plat formerly made by Mr. John Oliver for the town of Dorchester and nowe by ther order it is drawne into parchment April 1661 by me Joshua Fisher.\"",
        "\"Mem[o] Apr 27th 1738, the course between Clapboard Hill & ye swamp westward of Muddy Pond was found to be about SW:64 variation accepted.\""
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