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A plan of Boston Harbor [cartographic material] / surveyed by Samuel Holland Esqr.

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Date:

[1773-1775].

Reference:

R12567-484-0-E, Volume number: 57

Local class no.:

V11/1240/Boston/[1773-1775]

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3963080

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Maps, plans and charts

United States of America

1240 - Metro areas, United States of America

A plan of Boston Harbor
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Date(s):

[1773-1775].

Place of creation:

England

Extent:

1 map in 2 sections : photocopy ; each section 94.0 x 50.0 cm.

Language of material:

English

Additional name(s):

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Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801

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General note:

As Holland is reported to have been in the Boston area in 1773 and a plan entitled "A plan of the Bay and Harbor surveyed agreeably to the Orders and Instructions of the Right Honourable the Lord Commissioners for Trade and Plantations to Samuel Holland ... by Messrs Wheeler and Grant" was made in 1775, this chart has been so dated.

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Scale [ca. 1:27 000].

Original version note:

Original held in the Great Britain, Ministry of Defence, Hydrographic Department, Taunton, 395/88. Great Britain, Admiralty, Hydrographic Department. Professional Paper No. 13 (London, 1950) "Selected manuscript documents of historic importance preserved in the Archives of the Department" p. 5.

Related material:

Chipman, W., "The life and times of Major Samuel Holland", Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, 21 (1924), p. 32. Cumming, W.P., British Maps of colonial America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1974), p. 52.

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Boston (Mass.) - maps

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Private
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Volume [R12567] 57

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: copy for research purposes only. Original held in Great Britain, Ministry of Defence, Hydrographic Department
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