Content: Scale approximately 1:19,800 (W 71°16ʹ15ʺ--W 71°07ʹ43ʺ/N 42°22ʹ28ʺ--N 42°15ʹ50ʺ)
Content: Oriented with north at bottom right.
Content: Shows names and dates of early landowners, some acerage, location of dwellings, roads, and town boundaries.
Source Note: Extracted from "History of the early settlement of Newton, county of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800" (1854) by Francis Jackson.
Content: "Scale 100 rods to aa [sic] inch."
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : color ; 44 x 59 cm, sheet 48 x 60 cm
Relief shown by hachures

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 50781578
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20625571
Other local Identifier: US094.2.06
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0b8e6ac0-e1f5-0132-0b48-58d385a7bbd0

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1854

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan of the town of Newton in 1700" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0b8e6ac0-e1f5-0132-0b48-58d385a7bbd0

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1854). Plan of the town of Newton in 1700 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0b8e6ac0-e1f5-0132-0b48-58d385a7bbd0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan of the town of Newton in 1700" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0b8e6ac0-e1f5-0132-0b48-58d385a7bbd0

Wikipedia citation

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