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    The Plymouth Company Maps

    The Plymouth Company's land grant covered about three million acres located fifteen miles on either side of the Kennebec River from Merrymeeting Bay to Norridgewock and slightly beyond. Another land company, The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick, and the Plymouth Company carried on a dispute about land ownership during the 1750s, using maps of the area to prove ownership.
    Indian deeds are represented on some of these maps. A few maps show large regions of the patent, include flourishes such as compass roses, color washes, and cartouches, or have text describing local history.
    Although maps such as these can no longer be considered accurate as to boundaries and ownership, they provide a glimpse of how early surveyors in the region around the Kennebec River created maps and how the settlers and land companies managed property disputes. Some, too, are quite beautiful.


    click info for a larger,zoom-able map
    http://www.mainememory.net/sitebuild...ge&slide_num=1

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    Jan 2007
    Boston area
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    Re: The Plymouth Company Maps

    Quote Originally Posted by cw0909
    The Plymouth Company's land grant covered about three million acres located fifteen miles on either side of the Kennebec River from Merrymeeting Bay to Norridgewock and slightly beyond. Another land company, The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick, and the Plymouth Company carried on a dispute about land ownership during the 1750s, using maps of the area to prove ownership.
    Indian deeds are represented on some of these maps. A few maps show large regions of the patent, include flourishes such as compass roses, color washes, and cartouches, or have text describing local history.
    Although maps such as these can no longer be considered accurate as to boundaries and ownership, they provide a glimpse of how early surveyors in the region around the Kennebec River created maps and how the settlers and land companies managed property disputes. Some, too, are quite beautiful.


    click info for a larger,zoom-able map
    http://www.mainememory.net/sitebuild...ge&slide_num=1
    Great link.
    I live in Massachusetts and am heavily researching the Native Americans of this area.
    Those maps may help!

    I've been scanning my collection of Old Maps and posting them on my site.
    The maps show property owner's names, mining claims, parks, schools, etc.
    Use 'em if you can!

    -Vin
    http://MenotomyMaps.com

 

 

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