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Description
This manuscript map (Map #63) was commissioned by the Pejepscot Proprietors and shows the boundary lines between properties around lot #1 in Harpswell, Maine. Scale [1:7920] 40 poles = 1 inch.
The surveyors of the time used different measuring devices to mark the scale of their surveys. A piece of wood, called a rod, perch or pole was most often used. These pieces of wood equal 198 inches. A 'perch' refers to the tree limb upon which a bird 'perches'. Chains were also used, and could measure distance through more varied terrain as it could bend and turn, unlike a rod, perch or pole.
About This Item
- Title: Lot #1 in Harpswell, 1743
- Creator: James Scales
- Creation Date: 1743
- Subject Date: 1743
- Location: Harpswell, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 39 cm x 32 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 61, Map 63
- Collection: Pejepscot Proprietors papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Harpswell (Me.)--Maps
- Land companies--Maine
- Land grants--Maine--Maps
- Land settlement--Maine
- Landowners--Maine--Harpswell
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps, Manuscript
- Pejepscot Proprietors--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
- Real property--Maine--Harpswell
People
- Cunningham, Nathan
- Douglas, Elijah
- Gibbs, Henry
- Hall, Bragden
- Harmon,
- Jacques,
- Jeffries, David
- Royall, Isaac
- Scales, James
- Stover,
- Toothacre,
- Wadsworth, Joseph
- Webber,
Other Keywords
- Ash Cove
- Ash Point Cove
- Basin Cove
- Bason Cove
- Curtis Cove
- Early contact & settlement
- Nature, geography & animals
- Personal writing
- Stover Cove
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