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Description
The map is entitled, "A plan of Kennebek & Sagadahok Rivers, with the adjacent coasts: taken from actual surveys and dedicated to his Excellency William Shirley, Esq. Governor of Massachusetts Bay Prov: in New England by Thomas Johnston, 1754 to which is added a draught of the River LaChaudiere by a French Deserter the same year."
The map is part of the Plymouth Company's papers and is considered the 3rd of the Johnston Maps, London, 1755.
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About This Item
- Title: Kennebec and Sagadahoc Rivers, 1755
- Creator: Thomas Johnston
- Creation Date: 1754
- Subject Date: 1754
- Location: ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 47 cm x 55 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 60, Map 56-2-2
- Collection: Plymouth Company (1749-1816) records
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Chaudiere River (Quebec)--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Cobbosseecontee
- Fort Frederick (Me.)
- Fort Halifax (Me.)
- Fort Western (Augusta, Me.)
- Frankfort (Me.)
- Kennebec patent
- Kennebec River (Me.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Land grants--Maine
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Plymouth Company (1749-1816)--Records and correspondence--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Sagadahoc River (Me.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
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