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Description
Manuscript map #43 showing a plan of an island in [the] Androscoggin River sold to Peletiah Haley, a shipwright from Topsham. The plan was drawn on Oct. 17, 1767. The Island was known as "Beach Island" and it was conveyed along with 130 acres of land in Topsham for £48 and "the finishing the meetinghouse in said place."
About This Item
- Title: Peletiah Haley's island, 1767
- Creator: John Merrill
- Creation Date: 1767-10-17
- Subject Date: 1767-10-17
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Locations:
- Topsham, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Brunswick, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 30 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 61, Map 43
- Collection: Pejepscot Proprietors papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Brunswick (Me.)--Maps
- Islands--Maine
- Land companies
- Land grants--Maine
- Land settlement--Maine--Topsham
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Pejepscot Company--Records and correspondence--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick
- Real property--Maine--Harpswell
- Topsham (Me.)--Maps
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