Contested Northeast boundary map, 1843
Item 11786 info
Maine Historical Society
Questions included which of the three rivers emptying into Passamaquoddy Bay was actually the St. Croix.
The British said it was a branch of the Schoodiac and the Americans said the Magaguadavic, running more to the east.
Handwritten note in ink at top of map, "Mitchell's map--The dotted line shows the admitted division between England and France in 1755, and what was in 1783 the admitted line between Mass and Nova Scotia; also the recognised St. Croix, and, further, the line traced by the Commissioners on both sides, as the true line."
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