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  <title xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">[Manuscript maps that were assembled by Egbert Benson and sent in 1802 to Rufus King, United States minister to Great Britain, in order to facilitate negotiations over disputed international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick].</title>
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833.</creator>
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">King, Rufus, 1755-1827.</creator>
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mitchell, John, 1711-1768.</creator>
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Champlain, Samuel de, 1574-1635.</creator>
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jones, B. R. (Benjamin Richards), active 1804-1810.</creator>
  <type xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">manuscriptcartographic</type>
  <type xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Maps. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026387</type>
  <publisher xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"/>
  <date xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">[1802?]</date>
  <language xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">eng</language>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Depths shown by soundings on Champlain's map of Saint Croix Island and vicinity.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Title supplied by cataloger.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Dealer's catalog: Each [map] possibly executed by a different hand.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pen-and-ink and watercolor.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Accompanied by manuscript explaining 1798 decision on location of Saint Croix River (7 sheets ; each 31 x 21 cm.), manuscript letter from Benson to unidentified  recipient (1 sheet ; 26 x 21 cm.), cover sheet bearing manuscript title of "Case/St. Croix boundary/sent to R.K. by the author E.B." (1 sheet ; 22 x 36 cm.), and folder (24 x 32 cm.) and sheet (28 x 22 cm.) bearing typed description of the maps and text.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Imperfect: Brittle, stained.</description>
  <description xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">[Colored map of border region extending from Saint Lawrence River to Passamaquoddy Bay that was "copied from Mitchell's map"] -- [Uncolored copy of Champlain's 1613 indexed map of Saint Croix Island and vicinity] -- [Uncolored map of Saint Croix Island (designated "Bone Island") and vicinity in 1797] -- Map of Passamaquaddy [i.e. Passamaquoddy] Bay from actual survey : [uncolored map of Passamaquoddy Bay and vicinity based on surveys by Benjamin Richards Jones].</description>
  <subject xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Manuscript maps.</subject>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Maine--Boundaries--New Brunswick--Maps.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">New Brunswick--Boundaries--Maine--Maps.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Saint Croix Island (Me.)--Maps.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Saint Croix River Region (Me. and N.B.)--Maps.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Passamaquoddy Bay Region (N.B. and Me.)--Maps.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">United States</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Canada</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">United States Saint Croix Island.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">United States Saint Croix River Region.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Canada Saint Croix River Region.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">United States Passamaquoddy Bay River Region.</coverage>
  <coverage xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Canada Passamaquoddy Bay River Region.</coverage>
  <relation xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.</relation>
  <identifier xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3731f.ct003100a</identifier>
  <identifier xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3731f.ct003100b</identifier>
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