A PLAN of Kennebek & Sagadahok Rivers, with the adjacent Coasts. . . Courtesy of Boston Rare Maps.

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A PLAN of Kennebek & Sagadahok Rivers, with the adjacent Coasts. . . Courtesy of Boston Rare Maps.

Full description: [John Green] / after Thomas Johnston / Thomas Kitchin (engraver), A PLAN of Kennebek & Sagadahok Rivers, with the adjacent Coasts: taken from Actual Surveys and dedicated to his Excely. William Shirley Esq. Governor of Massachusetts Bay Prov: in New England by Thomas Johnston, 1754 to which is added a draught of the River LaChaudiere by a French Deserter the same Year. London: Andrew Millar, May 14th 1755.

Map insets include plans of Fort St. Frederic at Crown Point on Lake Champlain, and Forts Frankfort, Western and Halifax on the Kennebec River. Another inset shows the portage between the Heads of the Kennebec and Chaudiere rivers. [show less]

Published in 1755, this map anticipates the outbreak of the Seven Years War. It was published in State of the British and French Colonies in North America: with Respect to Number of Peoples, Forces, Forts, Indians, Trade and Other Advantages . . . (341)