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    <mods:title>Manuscript map of Boston (Mass.), 20 September 1794</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Belknap, Jeremy</mods:namePart>
    <mods:namePart type='date'>1744-1798</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:dateCreated encoding='w3cdtf' keyDate='yes'>1794-09-20</mods:dateCreated>
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    <mods:digitalOrigin>reformatted digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
    <mods:extent>33 cm x 38.75 cm</mods:extent>
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  <mods:abstract>This manuscript map by Jeremy Belknap was enclosed in a letter he sent to Ebenezer Hazard on 20 September 1794 and shows the Tontine Crescent, churches and meetinghouses (including the Old South Meeting House, Trinity Church, and the Federal Street Church), wharves, and the locations of Belknap's various residences in Boston. The map also shows the location of the origin of a fire on 30 July 1794 (within the ropewalks located near Fort Hill) and a dotted line indicates the extent of the damage. The map's western boundary is present-day Washington Street. Enclosed in a letter from Jeremy Belknap to Ebenezer Hazard, 20 September 1794 From the Jeremy Belknap papers</mods:abstract>
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    <mods:topic>Wharves--Massachusetts--Boston</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Fires--Massachusetts--Boston</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Maps, Manuscript--1794</mods:topic>
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      <mods:county>Suffolk</mods:county>
      <mods:country>United States</mods:country>
      <mods:continent>North and Central America</mods:continent>
      <mods:state>Massachusetts</mods:state>
      <mods:city>Boston</mods:city>
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      <mods:coordinates>42.35,-71.05</mods:coordinates>
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    <mods:geographic>Boston (Mass.)</mods:geographic>
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  <mods:accessCondition displayLabel='license' type='use and reproduction'>Contact host institution for more information.</mods:accessCondition>
  <mods:accessCondition displayLabel='rights' type='use and reproduction'>Item from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Image use and licensing information: www.masshist.org/library/permissions</mods:accessCondition>
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