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Just a year after producing a map supporting the Brunswick Proprietors’ claim, Thomas Johnston issued this plan supporting the position of their opponents in the Plymouth Company. The map depicts the Company’s grant extending to Casco Bay and includes a long note justifying its title to the land. It also places the dispute in the broader context of Anglo-French tensions by highlighting the Company’s role in establishing Forts Franckfort and Western to protect the Maine frontier from French attacks.
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z603vm790
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This plan of Kennebeck & Sagadahock Rivers & country adjacent
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map
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z603vm790
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map
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normalized
title
This plan of Kennebeck & Sagadahock Rivers & country adjacent
description
Just a year after producing a map supporting the Brunswick Proprietors’ claim, Thomas Johnston issued this plan supporting the position of their opponents in the Plymouth Company. The map depicts the Company’s grant extending to Casco Bay and includes a long note justifying its title to the land. It also places the dispute in the broader context of Anglo-French tensions by highlighting the Company’s role in establishing Forts Franckfort and Western to protect the Maine frontier from French attacks.
date
["1754"]
year
1754
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
creators
Johnston, Thomas, 1708-1767
Heath, Joseph
Jones, Phineas
North, John
Jones, Ephraim
Hutchinson, E.
Plymouth Company
institution
Massachusetts Historical Society
collections
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Massachusetts Historical Society Map Collection
subjects
Penobscot Bay (Me.)--Maps
New England--Maps
New York (State)--Maps
Maine--Maps
New Hampshire--Maps
Kennebec River--Maps
Kennebec Patent--Maps
Casco Bay (Me.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Casco Bay
Cumberland (county)
Kennebec
Maine
New Hampshire
New York
North and Central America
Penobscot
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Maine
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1
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pubPlace
[Boston]
publisher
Engraved, printed & sold by Thomas Johnston, Brattle Street, Boston, New England
Source extras
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6m311p37v
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dn39z222j
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44.1833
schema:longitude
-68.9167
extent
1 map : col. ; 84 x 61 cm.
notes
Latitude in degrees and minutes north from equator. Latitude and longitude also given for inset map.
Coordinates indicated.
Boundaries of British claims in yellow, green and red.
Title within decorative cartouche.
At head of title: To his Excellency William Shirley Esq. Capt. General & Governour in Chief in & over his Majesty's Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England.
Issued by Plymouth Company.
Includes three columns of text asserting grounds for British claims to sovereignty over province of Maine and controverting French claims.
Includes inset map of New England "chiefly taken from Monsr. Bellin's Map of North America published at Paris 1745."
Includes plans of Fort Western, Fort Hallifax [sic], and Fort Frankfort.
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z603vm790
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map
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