Manuscript map of the town of Weymouth, circa 1800

Manuscript map of the town of Weymouth, circa 1800

Maps, Manuscript--1800.

Weymouth (Mass.) --Maps, Manuscript.

Pen and ink and watercolor map. The manuscript map of Weymouth lists twenty-two prominent places including roads, taverns, bridges, ponds, mills, and houses. The neighboring towns, Braintree, Randolph, Abington, and Hingham, are identified, although no details of these towns are provided on this map. The town line is reddish-orange, and the main roadways are yellow. The following places are listed on the map: 1. Lower Neck , 2. Fort , 3. Fore River,, 4. Road, 5. Hunts Hill, 6. Ferry Point, 7. Tide Mill, 8. North Meeting House, 9. Back River, 10. Arnolds Tavern, 11. Rice's Tavern , 12. Bates' Mill, 13. Rice's Mills, 14. Whitman's Pond, 15. Tirrill's [Tirrell's] Mill Bridge, 16. Whortleberry Pond, 17. Bates' Fulling Mill, 18. Porter's Mill, 19. Shaws Tavern, 20. South M[eeting] House, 21. Vinson's Mill, 22. Great Pond.

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Massachusetts Historical Society, www.masshist.org

circa 1800

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