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A map of all Friends Meetings belonging to the Yearly Meeting of Rhode Island, with their course or lying & distance from each other
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A New and Correct Map of North America with the West India Islands
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Vineyard Mining Company minutes of meetings and constitution
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Blanchards map of Chicago
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Accurate Map of North America, Describing and distinguishing the British and Spanish Dominions on this great Continent; according to the Definitive Treaty Concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763. Also all the West India Islands belonging to and possessed by the several European Princes and States
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Two submaps: A Particular Map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay; The Passage by Land to California Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino.. Voluminous text regarding sections of the treaty and other explanatory details. RLIN record gives appeared in information. Elaborate cartouches, on title and scale. Two submaps. wormholes.. Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fluer-di-lis. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheSub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 146 Map 6.
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A general map of the middle British Colonies, in America : viz Virginia Maryland Delaware Pensilvania New Jersey New York Connecticut & Rhode Island ; of Aquanishuonigy, the country of the Confederate Indians, comprehending Aquanishuonigy proper, their places of residence, Ohio and Thuchsochruntie their deer-hunting countries, Couchsachrage and Skaniadarade, their beaver-hunting countries of the Lakes Erie, Ontario & Champlain and of part of New France wherein is also shewn the antient & present seats of the Indian Nations carefully copied from the original publish'd at Philadelphia by Mr. Lewis Evans
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An accurate map of North America : describing and distinguishing the British, Spanish and French dominions on this great continent according to the definitive treaty concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763 also all the West India Islands belonging to and possessed by the several European princes and states the whole laid down according to the latest and most authentick improvements / by Eman. Bowen Geogr. to His Majesty and John Gibson Engraver
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