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Description

Manuscript map 349 from the Plymouth Company's records.

The map title reads, "This is a plan of Ruscohegon Alias Parker's [Georgetown] Island laying at the mouth of [the] Kennebeck River on the East side thereof being within the Limits and Bounds of the patent Land belonging to the proprietors of the Kennebeck purchas from the Late Colony of New Plymouth with all the Settlers lotts thereon which is under the said Company...Dated this 22 March Anno Domini 1759."

A color illustration of a surveyor is on this map.

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About This Item

• Title: Plan of Ruscohegon Alias Parker's Island, Georgetown, 1759
• Creator: Jonas Jones
• Creation Date: 1759-03-22
• Subject Date: 1759-03-22
• Location: Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, ME
• Media: Ink on paper
• Dimensions: 54 cm x 94 cm
• Local Code: Coll. 60, Map 349
• Collection: Plymouth Company (1749-1816) records
• Object Type: Text and Image

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Cross Reference Searches

Standardized Subject Headings

• Cardinal points
• Georgetown Island (Me.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Kennebec Purchase Company
• Kennebeck Proprietors
• Land grants--Maine--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Landowners--Maine--Georgetown
• Manuscript maps
• Plymouth Company, 1749-1816--Records and correspondence--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Surveyors

People

• Goodwin, Samuel

Other Keywords

• Compass roses
• Illustrations

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