Catalogue description 1 item extracted from FO 4/8 (folio 878). 'A Map of the Genesee Lands in the County of...

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Details of MPK 1/27
Reference: MPK 1/27
Description:

1 item extracted from FO 4/8 (folio 878). 'A Map of the Genesee Lands in the County of Ontario and State of New York according to an accurate survey which was made of the same 1790'. Shows division into township lots, each six miles square. Key to conventional signs; reference table to sale and settlement of townships. Scale: 1 inch to 8 miles. Compass indicator. Some lots are annotated in MS: 'C.W.'. A MS note reads: 'Each Township consists of 23,040 acres. Those marked C.W. are those belong[ing] to Chas. Williamson or under his management.' Williamson's house is shown, and what is probably a road leads from it south to Pennsylvania.

Date: 1790
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Dimensions: 34.3 cm x 20.6 cm
Map scale: 1:506880
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 2637. Archival reference erroneously printed as FO 4/15.

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