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Description
Manuscript map of areas around the Androscoggin River near Livermore, Mexico (Maine), Leeds, Jay, and Canton, Maine, ca. 1760. Commissioned by the Pejepscot Purchase Company. Names on the map include Holman town, Phipps Canada, Livermore, and Jay.
The lands depicted in this map are a plan for towns along the Androscoggin River. In this map the towns are labeled as Livermore Falls, Phipps Canada (or Jay), Holman Town and Perricook. These towns in the area depicted by this map are now known as Livermore Falls, Jay, Canton, Peru and Dixfield.
About This Item
- Title: Plan for towns along the Androscoggin River, ca. 1760
- Creator: Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick
- Creation Date: circa 1760
- Subject Date: circa 1760
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Locations:
- Livermore Falls, Androscoggin County, ME
- Canton, Oxford County, ME
- Mexico, Oxford County, ME
- Jay, Franklin County, ME
- Leeds, Androscoggin County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 32 cm x 35 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 61, Map 74
- 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
- Canton (Me.)--Maps
- Dixfield (Me.)--Maps
- Jay (Me.)--Maps
- Land companies
- Land grants--Maine--Maps
- Land settlement--Maine
- Livermore Falls (Me.)--Maps
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Maine--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Pejepscot Company--Records and correspondence
- Peru (Me.)--Maps
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