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    "label": "Map of Wayland when named East Sudbury",
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    "title": "Map of Wayland when named East Sudbury",
    "description": "For the compilation of a more accurate state map, each town (and the city of Boston) was required by Resolves 1829, c 50 to make a town plan based on a survey, to be submitted to the state secretary's office. Plans were to be drawn on a scale of one hundred rods to an inch and were to include rivers, waterways, public and private roads, places of public worship, courthouses, other public buildings, distant from town center to Boston, bridges and ferries, falls, ponds, shores, harbors, islands and hills, mills and manufactories, mines, iron works, meadows and woodlands.",
    "date": "[\"March 1831\"]",
    "year": 1831,
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    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
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    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "b3908467x",
    "creators": [
        "Grout, William Clapp, 1804-1876"
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    "collections": [
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        "Middlesex (county)",
        "North and Central America",
        "United States",
        "Wayland"
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    "typeOfResource": [
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    "state": "Massachusetts",
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        "Title from item or accompanying material.",
        "The town of Wayland was known as East Sudbury from 1780-1835 when it was renamed Wayland. Wayland was the original site of the Sudbury Plantation (1638). In 1780 the Town of Sudbury split into Sudbury on the west side and East Sudbury (later Wayland) primarily on the east side of the Sudbury River.",
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