A PLAN OF THE RIVER KENNEBECK AS IT WAS SVRVEYED BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF MASSACHUSETS BAY IN THE YEAR MDCCLXI From the Falls above FORT HALIFAX unto the Place where the Surveyor Mr John Small was killed, from his field book, with the addition of the lower part of the River, by Fra Miller Lieut

Small, John

Miller, Francis

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1761]

Scale not given

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--Maine--Kennebec River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Kennebec River (Me.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Kennebec
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map on 2 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink with grey wash ; 84 x 39 cm

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• This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).

• Relief shown pictorially.
• Shows title in a simple surround at upper left.
• Shows decorative compass rose at lower right, orienting north to the top of the map.
• Shows "KENNEBECK RIVER, "SAGADHOCK RIVER" and "ROYALS RIVER".
• Shows forts "Brunswick", "Frankfort", "Western" and "Halifax".
• Shows "Indian Carrying Place".
• Extends northwards along the Kennebec River as far as present-day North Anson (?).
• Compare maps by Small and Miller sold by Bonhams March 12th 2012 (see http://digital.turn-page.com/i/61715/177 - viewed October 2014).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,711.2. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVI. Shows manuscript addition of "2" in pencil at lower right. Shows "A 17" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "11". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/85", and repeated in pencil. Annotation to verso repeats "A 17". Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield.