Maine Highway Surveyor's Books, 1850 - 1899
Scope and Contents
23 Highway Surveyor’s booklets with notes by a variety of surveyors in the town of Harrison, Maine between 1850 and 1867. There is one outlier: a later booklet from the town of Somerville, Maine in 1899. Along with the lined pages for notes, each booklet contains a printed essay titled “The Power and Duty of Surveyors of Highway.” The booklets are bound with string and have covers in multiple colors including white, brown, blue, yellow, and red. Of particular note is the book created by Daniel H Brackett and dated 1853: the survey pages appear to have been removed and the remainder of the booklet used as a kind of commonplace book including notes, handwriting practice, and several short poems written by a young Meville Ezra Ingalls (1842-1914), who would go on to become a Massachusetts state legislator and president of the Big Four Railroad. His father, Ezra Thomas Ingalls, was an Assessor in Harrison, and his name appears regularly in the booklets.
Dates
- 1850 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
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From the Collection: Persian
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From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu