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Hand drawn map "An early map of the harbor and town of New Bedford drawn by Captain David Leslie who came and settled in the town in the year 1800. He removed to the city of New York in 1821 as will be seen by the annexed bill of passage in the sloop Boston. The undersigned was one of the passengers on that sloop - a child four years old. E.N. Leslie." Includes locations of rope walks, salt works, smoking rocks, Palmers Island, Crow Island, and Egg Islands as well as sounding depths. Original has notes and sketches in pencil.
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Document identity
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6d572k73w
label
New Bedford Harbor
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obj
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map
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1
Source metadata
id
6d572k73w
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
New Bedford Harbor
description
Hand drawn map "An early map of the harbor and town of New Bedford drawn by Captain David Leslie who came and settled in the town in the year 1800. He removed to the city of New York in 1821 as will be seen by the annexed bill of passage in the sloop Boston. The undersigned was one of the passengers on that sloop - a child four years old. E.N. Leslie." Includes locations of rope walks, salt works, smoking rocks, Palmers Island, Crow Island, and Egg Islands as well as sounding depths. Original has notes and sketches in pencil.
date
["[ca. 1815]"]
year
1815
rights
Rights status not evaluated
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
creators
Leslie, David (Shipmaster)
institution
New Bedford Free Public Library
collections
Map and Chart Collection
subjectsGeographic
Bristol (county)
Massachusetts
New Bedford
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Cartographic
Manuscript
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Bristol
city
New Bedford
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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q811p8335
schema:latitude
41.6333
schema:longitude
-70.9333
extent
1 map : ms., ink and graphite on paper
notes
Title from item or accompanying material.
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no
dcId
6d572k73w
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map
Single page context
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1
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photo
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