Catalogue description 2 items (formerly bound with Mr Hammond's despatch no 39 of 2 November 1792) extracted...

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Details of MPK 1/15
Reference: MPK 1/15
Description:

2 items (formerly bound with Mr Hammond's despatch no 39 of 2 November 1792) extracted from FO 4/16. (1) 'Description of the City of Washington', from The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine, March 1792. (2) 'Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and by them established as the Seat of their Government after the year MDCCC'. Explanatory observations. Scale: 1 inch to 100 poles. Compass star. Engraved by Samuel Hill, Boston. Dimensions: 41.7 cm x 51.1 cm.

Date: 1792-1800
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2279

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