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Description
Manuscript map #22 of Brunswick. Written on the map is, "The above plan describes several large lots and two gores of land belonging to eight Pejepscot Propriators."
Names mentioned include Daniel Marquand, Samuel Buffon, B. Wentworth, Isaac Royall, Fayrweather, Belcher Noyes, Moulton & Freeman, Eben Smith, Daniel Marquard, Stephen Chase, E. Danforth, Whittens and Merrills. The Pejepscot Purchase Company commissioned the map.
Bordered on the north by the Androscoggin River and Topsham, on the south by the present-day border between Brunswick and Freeport, and the west by Royalsborough (present-day Durham).
About This Item
- Title: Map of Brunswick, 1772
- Creator: John Merrill
- Creation Date: 1772
- Subject Date: 1772
- Location: Brunswick, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 61, Map 22
- Collection: Pejepscot Proprietors papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Brunswick (Me.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Land companies--Maine
- Land grants--Maine--Maps
- Land settlement--Maine
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Maine--Maps--Early works to 1800
- Manuscript maps
- Pejepscot Company--Records and correspondence
- Real property--Maine--Brunswick
People
- Buffon, Samuel
- Fayrweather,
- Freeman,
- Marquand, Daniel
- Merrill, John
- Moulton,
- Noyes, Belcher
- Royall, Isaac
- Smith, Eben
- Wentworth, B.
Other Keywords
- Early contact & settlement
- Early works to 1800.
- Landowners
- Nature, geography & animals
- Pejepscot Proprietors
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