![Manuscript receipt for a copy of his Map of Boston and Vicinity.]. John G. Hales](/pictures/thumb/3987_1.jpg?v=1560463483)
A rare manuscript receipt in the hand of mapmaker John G. Hales for the advance purchase of a copy of the map that would prove his most notable cartographic achievement. Recorded here is Hales’ receipt of “the sum of three dollars” from one “En. Silsby” for “a Map of.....
An important and beautiful map of Boston and its surroundings, reflecting Hales’ pioneering application of advanced surveying techniques to the mapping of New England. The region represented in this map extends from Boston as far north as Danvers and Beverly, to Concord, East Sudbury, Dover and Medfield in the...
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green...