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Description
Manuscript map #59 of Harpswell, then known as Mereconege Neck. This map was created for the Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick, the proprietors responsible for land settlement in the Brunswick area of Maine.
The land depicted in this map is bordered by Casco Bay to the northwest and by the "Mereconege River" to the southeast. The Mereconege River is now known as Harspwell Sound.
About This Item
- Title: Mereconege Neck, Harpswell, ca. 1780
- Creator: Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick
- Creation Date: circa 1780
- Subject Date: circa 1760
- Location: Harpswell, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 16 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 61, Map 59
- Collection: Pejepscot Proprietors papers
- Object Type: Text and Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Casco Bay (Me.)--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Harpswell (Me.)--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Land grants--Maine
- Land tenure--Maine
- Landowners--Maine--Harpswell--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick--Records and correspondence--Maps, manuscript--Early works to 1800
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