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14248Photocopy of Salem Towne Map of Western Mount Desert Island (1808)
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  • 1807
Photocopy of Salem Towne Map of Western Mount Desert Island (1808)
Item:
  • 14248   
Object ID:
  • 006.52.1
Catalog:
  • Archives
Type:
  • Map
Subject:
  • Other, Maps
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Surveyors
Collection:
  • Map Collection
Date:
  • 1807
Description:
This is a photocopy of the earliest known map of the eastern part of Mount Desert Island. The map shows the 1807 survey by John Peters of the French land grant to the De Gregoires and the acreages then sold to settlers. The original is in the Bar Harbor Historical Society. Inscription: "A Plan of the French grant on Mount Desert the shore to the old settlers' lots from a Plan taken by John Peters Esq., the remainder of the Survey taken by me, John Peters, Blue Hill, 1807." The map is approx. 51" in length and 30 wide. [show more]