Summer Americana Auction
Lot 638:
Embodied in the original, 1629 patent, to the Plymouth Company to enable the Pilgrims to establish a trading post at
Acushnoc, later Augusta, on the Kennebec. Their Patent laid fallow for 150 years and was later purchased by the Kennebec Proprietors, in 1749.Their claim was disputed by
Sagadahoc Proprietors, south of there. Law suits ensued and Thomas Johnson was hired to delineate the lands and clear the title. His 1754 Chart and Text attempted to do
that. The Chart was a copper plate engraving, published by Johnson, in Boston. Less than a dozen survive, in institutions. In 1912, the Massachusetts Historical Society was allowed
to publish this facsimile copy, in a limited edition.
Framed, 35 x 26 inches.
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