Bernard, Sir Francis, and John North (surveyor)Manuscript Map of the St. George Inlet and Lower St. George River in Maine. Fort St. George, i.e. present day Thomaston, Maine: 1759
Single sheet (762 x 533 mm). Pen-and-ink with grey wash on a large sheet of laid paper, with green highlights indicating meadows and marshes and red lines delineating portage routes, compass rose additionally decorated in green, red, and yellow, inscribed and signed at lower left "The annexed plan is A Survey of St. Georges River measured and Laid down by a scale of six hundred and forty poles to an Inch this 2d. Day of March 1759. John North " contemporary ink inscription on verso reading "Plan of St. George's River." French and Indian War manuscript map of Fort St. George and the surrounding areas along the St. George River in Maine. As early as 1733, John North was named a Justice of the Peace in York County, continuing that role in various Massachusetts (i.e. Maine) counties into the 1760s, and later serving as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County. During the French and Indian War, North was commissioned as a Captain and commanded Fort Frederick, and subsequently at Fort Pemmaquid and Fort St. George. A trained surveyor, among the earliest surveys of this region are by his hand.
The present survey is focused on the area surrounding and upriver of Fort St. George. Along the St. George inlet, toponyms include "Henderson's" and "Burton's Garrison," along with several harbors and landing places. Meadows, hills, rivers, and carrying places are all clearly delineated in the vicinity of the Fort, which is identified with a symbol and the notation "St. Georges Fort and block house." The map extends approximately 30 miles up the St. George river, with many ponds, brooks, dams and falls identified. This area of Maine would see action during the French and Indian War, as Acadian raiders mounted expeditions against British settlements along the coast. On 13 August 1758, French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert left the Acadian refugee camp Miramichi, New Brunswick with 400 soldiers, intending to attach and lay siege to Fort St. George. His detachment reached there on 9 September, but was caught in an ambush and had to withdraw. The present map includes a notation on Penobscot Bay: "Where ye French & Indians landed last fall."
PROVENANCE:Sir Francis Bernard Colonial Governor of Massachusett — By descent to Robert Spencer Bernard, Nether Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, England
Bernard, Sir Francis, and John North (surveyor)Manuscript Map of the St. George Inlet and Lower St. George River in Maine. Fort St. George, i.e. present day Thomaston, Maine: 1759
Single sheet (762 x 533 mm). Pen-and-ink with grey wash on a large sheet of laid paper, with green highlights indicating meadows and marshes and red lines delineating portage routes, compass rose additionally decorated in green, red, and yellow, inscribed and signed at lower left "The annexed plan is A Survey of St. Georges River measured and Laid down by a scale of six hundred and forty poles to an Inch this 2d. Day of March 1759. John North " contemporary ink inscription on verso reading "Plan of St. George's River." French and Indian War manuscript map of Fort St. George and the surrounding areas along the St. George River in Maine. As early as 1733, John North was named a Justice of the Peace in York County, continuing that role in various Massachusetts (i.e. Maine) counties into the 1760s, and later serving as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Lincoln County. During the French and Indian War, North was commissioned as a Captain and commanded Fort Frederick, and subsequently at Fort Pemmaquid and Fort St. George. A trained surveyor, among the earliest surveys of this region are by his hand.
The present survey is focused on the area surrounding and upriver of Fort St. George. Along the St. George inlet, toponyms include "Henderson's" and "Burton's Garrison," along with several harbors and landing places. Meadows, hills, rivers, and carrying places are all clearly delineated in the vicinity of the Fort, which is identified with a symbol and the notation "St. Georges Fort and block house." The map extends approximately 30 miles up the St. George river, with many ponds, brooks, dams and falls identified. This area of Maine would see action during the French and Indian War, as Acadian raiders mounted expeditions against British settlements along the coast. On 13 August 1758, French officer Charles Deschamps de Boishébert left the Acadian refugee camp Miramichi, New Brunswick with 400 soldiers, intending to attach and lay siege to Fort St. George. His detachment reached there on 9 September, but was caught in an ambush and had to withdraw. The present map includes a notation on Penobscot Bay: "Where ye French & Indians landed last fall."
PROVENANCE:Sir Francis Bernard Colonial Governor of Massachusett — By descent to Robert Spencer Bernard, Nether Winchendon House, Buckinghamshire, England
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