Map of Sudbury, Mass.
Item Information
- Title:
- Map of Sudbury, Mass.
- Description:
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This map was used when East Sudbury separated from Sudbury by the General Court. The surrounding towns are Stow, Marlborough, Framingham, East Sudbury (now Wayland) and Concord. It shows country roads, town roads, dwelling houses with owners' names, and provides the number of acres of land, water and roads, distances between Concord Ctr., Cambridge and Boston as well as the length of miles the roads use. Ponds and streams are identified by name. This map is a copy of the original found at the Massachusetts Archives in their Maps and Plans number 2042.
- Surveyor:
- Wood, William Henry, 1802-1864
- Name on Item:
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surveyed by Wm. B. Wood, agreeably to a resolve of the General Court passed at its winter session of 1829-30. Surveyed Oct'r 1830
- Date:
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October 1830
- Format:
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Maps/Atlases
- Genre:
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Cadastral maps
- Location:
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Wayland Free Public Library
1800-1839 (shelf locator) - Collection (local):
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Wayland Historical Maps and Plans
- Series:
- 1800 Maps
- Subjects:
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History
Land owners
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Sudbury
- Extent:
- 1 map ; 63 x 47 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4658308k
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Scale:
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Scale 1:19,800
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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Title from item or accompanying material.
Colonel William Henry Wood of Marlborough was listed in the Massachusetts Register for 1834. He served as a selectman in 1849 and 1850. He is thanked in the preface of Charles Hudson's history of Marlborough. In 1862, he was appointed to the "committee of ten for the aid and encouragement of the individuals or for the support of the families of the individuals composing the volunteer militia companies now raised or hereafter to be raised in this town to meet the calls of the Government." In 1864, a Special Statute of the Commonwealth discharging him from his duties as a justice of the peace within and for the county of Middlesex. After he was discharged from being a judge, he went to war.
- Notes (date):
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Date from item or accompanying material.
- Identifier:
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b39059376
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