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1ST GENERATION THIS SIDE OF THE POND: John ALDEN of Plymouth, passenger in the Mayflower in 1620, had not been associated at Leyden with the Pilgrims, but was hired at Southampton as a cooper, with right of staying on this side or return. He got married during 1623 with Priscilla MULLENS, daughter of William MULLINS, who as well as his wife died the first February after landing. We know only eight children by their names, John ALDEN, born perhaps 1623; Joseph ALDEN, David ALDEN, Jonathan ALDEN, Elizabeth ALDEN, Sarah ALDEN, Ruth ALDEN, and Mary ALDEN; but in Bradford we find husband and wife living in 1650, “and have eleven children and their eldest daughter hath five children.”1 Of these during May 1627, at the division of the cattle, only John ALDEN and Elizabeth ALDEN are named, so that the other nine were born later, but their dates of birth are not heard. He lived most of his days at Duxbury, was a Representative during 1641, yet had been chosen an Assistant for the Colony during 1633, to Governor Winslow, and served 42 years in that office, to every Governor after Carver. Idly would tradition attempt to magnify his merit, as the first to jump upon the rock at Plymouth landing when he was not of the party in the shallop that discovered the harbor, but continued on board ship at Cape Cod. He was the last male survivor of the signers of the November 1620 compact in that harbor, and died on September 12, 1687 at the age of 84, or by other account, 88. Of the daughters Elizabeth ALDEN got married on December 18, 1644 with William PEABODY and died on May 3, 1717 at the age of 94, says her gravestone; Sarah ALDEN got married with Alexander STANDISH; Ruth ALDEN got married on May 12 (Winsor has it on February 3), 1657 with John BASS of Braintree MA; and Mary ALDEN got married with Thomas DELANO. 2D GENERATION THIS SIDE OF THE POND: Joseph ALDEN of Duxbury, son of John ALDEN and Priscilla Mullens ALDEN of the Mayflower, married Mary SIMMONS, daughter of Moses Simmins, Simons, or Symondson, removed early to Bridgewater MA, had Isaac ALDEN; Joseph ALDEN, born during 1668; John ALDEN, and, perhaps Elizabeth ALDEN and Mary ALDEN; and died on February 8, 1697. The daughters were married one before and one after. 3D GENERATION THIS SIDE OF THE POND: Deacon Joseph ALDEN got married with Hannah DUNHAM and produced Eleazer ALDEN. 4TH GENERATION THIS SIDE OF THE POND: Eleazer ALDEN got married with Martha SHAW and produced Timothy Alden. 5TH GENERATION THIS SIDE OF THE POND: Timothy Alden got married with Sarah WELD and produced Timothy Alden.

1736

November 24, Wednesday (Old Style): Timothy Alden was born.

1737

During this year or the following one, Sarah Weld was born in Attleboro. 1. The famous story of how John Alden went to Priscilla Mullen to make a case for Myles Standish and was coyly asked “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?” would not appear until John and Priscilla’s 5th-generation descendant, Timothy Alden, Jr., would publish a five-volume genealogy entitled A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES, in 1814-1819. ALDEN’S EPITAPHS

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1770

September 17, Monday: John Foster was born in a small farmhouse between Wainsgate and Hebden Bridge near Halifax in West Yorkshire, a son of John Foster and Ann Foster, weavers. (the structure now boasts an architectural tablet inscribed with: BIRTHPLACE OF / JOHN FOSTER / THE ESSAYIST / BORN 1770). He would be educated at Brierly Hall, would until his 14th year work at spinning wool to a thread by the hand- wheel, and would then be apprenticed to a weaver.

Timothy Alden got married with Sarah Weld. This couple would produce: 1. Timothy Alden, Jr. 2. Isaiah Alden (born on September 22, 1772, got married with Susanna Hedge who had been born about 1781, died during 1843). 3. Reverend Martin Alden (born on October 7, 1773, got married with Polly Kingman, died during 1838). 4. Oliver Alden (born on March 9, 1775, got married with Lucy Alden, died on August 20, 1849). 5. Sarah Weld Alden (born on December 17, 1776, got married with Captain Isaac Matthews, died during July 1847). 6. Martha Shaw Alden (born on January 8, 1778, got married with Jeremiah Taylor, died during 1857).

1771

August 28, Wednesday: Timothy Alden, Jr. was born in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Timothy Alden who would be the pastor there for more than six decades, and Sarah Weld Alden of Attleboro.

1774

In about this year, the 1st marriage of Timothy Alden, Jr. was with Elizabeth Shepard Wormstead, daughter of Captain Robert Wormstead (circa 1775-April 3, 1820). This couple would produce: 1. Martha Wright Alden (born on May 19, 1798 would get married with Patrick Farrelly). 2. Elizabeth Shepard Wormstead Alden (born on November 23, 1800, got married with John Gibson). 3. Timothy Fox Alden (born on April 12, 1802, got married with Priscilla Dunn Van Horne, died during 1856). 4. Robert Wormstead Alden (born on January 1, 1804). 5. Sarah Weld Josephine Alden (born on December 30, 1812, got married a 1st time with Peter Joseph Maitland, and a 2d time with Thomas F. Dale).

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1794

Sylvestre François Lacroix was aiding his old instructor, Professor Gaspard Monge, in creating material for a course on descriptive geometry.

Timothy Alden, Jr. took his doctorate from Harvard College in Classical and Oriental Languages with high ranks. He would become a teacher at Marblehead, Massachusetts.

Elijah Dunbar, also graduating from Harvard, prepared an assignment that has been preserved, “Calculation and Projection of an Eclipse of the Sun, to happen August 25th, 1794” (14 ½ x 21 ¼ inches). 2 NEW “HARVARD MEN”

1796

October 28, Friday: Sarah Weld Alden died at the age of 59.

1799

The teacher at Marblehead, Massachusetts, Timothy Alden, Jr., relocated to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he would be licensed to preach at the South Congregational Church. He was not the only preacher in this church, and would supplement his income by teaching.

1805

Timothy Alden, Jr. resigned from his post at the South Congregational Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to teach at various girls’ schools. He would open a Ladies’ College in Boston.

DATE: Timothy Alden, Jr. relocated from Boston to New York.

DATE: Timothy Alden, Jr. relocated from New York to western Pennsylvania.

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1814

Timothy Alden, Jr. began to issue the five volumes of his A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES. BY REV. TIMOTHY ALDEN, A.M. HONORARY MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AND OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, ETC. (New-York). This author was the 1st to reveal the now-famous love-triangle story, about Timothy Alden’s Mayflower ancestors John Alden and Priscilla Mullen Alden.

This collection would be referred to in Henry Thoreau’s CAPE COD.

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CAPE COD: The tires of the stage-wheels were about five inches wide; and the wagon-tires generally on the Cape are an inch or two wider, as the sand is an inch or two deeper than elsewhere. I saw a baby’s wagon with tires six inches wide to keep it near the surface. The more tired the wheels, the less tired the horses. Yet all the time that we were in Provincetown, which was two days and nights, we saw only one horse and cart, and they were conveying a coffin. They did not try such experiments there on common occasions. The next summer I saw only the two-wheeled horse-cart which conveyed me thirty rods into the harbor on my way to the steamer. Yet we read that there were two horses and two yoke of oxen here in 1791, and we were told that there were several more when we were there, beside the stage team. In Barber’s Historical Collections, it is said, “so rarely are wheel-carriages seen in the place that they are a matter of some curiosity to the younger part of the community. A lad who understood navigating the ocean much better than land travel, on seeing a man driving a wagon in the street, expressed his surprise at his being able to drive so straight without the assistance of a rudder.” There was no rattle of carts, and there would have been no rattle if there had been any carts. Some saddle-horses that passed the hotel in the evening merely made the sand fly with a rustling sound like a writer sanding his paper copiously, but there was no sound of their tread. No doubt there are more horses and carts there at present. A sleigh is never seen, or at least is a great novelty on the Cape, the snow being either absorbed by the sand or blown into drifts.

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1815

July 18, Tuesday: Timothy Alden, Jr. placed an advertisement in the Crawford Messenger announcing the establishment in Meadeville, Pennsylvania of “Alleghany College.”

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1816

Our national birthday, Thursday the 4th of July: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, or Hathorne’s, 12th birthday. The Declaration of Independence was read aloud by W.S. Radcliff in the Hall of the House of Representatives at the Capitol.

John Binns of Philadelphia proposed the publication of a spiffy new edition of the Declaration of Independence intended to retail at $13 a copy — which would be at that time considerably more than two weeks’ gross wages for a laboring man. CELEBRATING OUR B-DAY

The initial freshman class, of four scholars, matriculated at Timothy Alden, Jr.’s Alleghany College in Meadeville, Pennsylvania. Classes would be in the Alden home.

The following is a description of the 4th of July celebrations of this year in New-York, from Charles Haswell’s AN OCTOGENARIAN REMINISCES: On the eve of Fourth of July, or Independence Day, booths were erected around the City Hall Park, and roast pig, eggnog, cider, and spruce beer were temptingly displayed. On the following day the militia formed at the Battery, paraded up Broadway to the City Hall, where it was reviewed by the Mayor and Aldermen, and after executing a feu de joie was dismissed. The various civic societies met, formed in line, and marched through some of the principal streets; the Tammany Society, by right of seniority, being assigned to the head of the column. CELEBRATING OUR B-DAY Francis Marryat has also described for our benefit the events of this festive day: [O]n the evening of the 3rd ... the municipal police [went round] pasting up placards, informing the citizens of New York that all persons letting off fireworks would be taken into custody, ... immediately followed up by the little boys proving their independence ... by letting off squibs, crackers, and bombs -- and cannons, made our of shin bones, which flew in the face of every passenger... [the morning dawned, 90 degrees in the shade, with hordes of timorous people fleeing the city] On each side of the whole length of Broadway were ranged booths and stands ... on which were displayed small plates of oysters, with a fork stuck in the board opposite to each plate; clams sweltering in the hot sun; pineapples, boiled hams, pies, puddings, barley sugar,... But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! ...[the booths were also] loaded with porter, ale, cider, mead, brandy, ginger-beer, pop, soda-water, whiskey, rum, punch, gin slings, cocktails, mint juleps ... Martial music sounded from a dozen quarters at once;... At last the troups of militia and volunteers, who had been gathering in the park and other squares, made their

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appearance, well dressed and well equipped, and, in honour of the day, marching as independently as they well could. I did not see them go through many manoeuvres, but there was one which they appeared to excel in, and that was grounding arms and eating pies.... The crowds assembled were, as American crowds usually are, quiet and well behaved. I recognized many of my literary friends turned into generals, and flourishing swords ... the shipping at the wharfs were loaded with star-spangled banners; steamers ... covered with flags; the whole beautiful Sound was alive with boats and sailing vessels, all flaunting with pennants and streamers. “...All creation appeared to be independent on this day; some of the horses particularly so, for they would not keep “in no line no how.” Some preferred going sideways like crabs, others went backwards, some would not go at all, others went a great deal too fast, and not a few parted company with their riders, ... let them go which way they would, they could not avoid the squibs and crackers. And the women were in the same predicament: they might dance right, or dance left, ... you literally trod upon gunpowder. “When the troops marched up Broadway, louder even than the music were to be heard the screams of delight from the children ... “Ma! ma! there’s pa!” “Oh! there’s John.” “Look at uncle on his big horse.” “Unless you are an amateur, there is no occasion to go to the various places of public amusement where their fireworks are let off, for they are sent up everywhere in such quantities that you hardly know which way to turn your eyes. It is, however, advisable to go into some place of safety, for the little boys and the big boys have all got their supply of rockets, which they fire off in the streets -- some running horizontally up the pavement, and sticking into the back of a passenger, and others mounting slantingdicularly and Paul-Prying into the bedroom windows on the third floor or attics, just to see how things are going on there. Look in any point of the compass, and you will see a shower of rockets in the sky: turn from New York to Jersey City, from Jersey City to Brooklyn, and shower is answered by shower on either side of the water. Hoboken repeats the signal; and thus it is carried on to the east, the west, the north, and the south, from Rhode Island to the Missouri, from the Canada frontier to the Gulf of Mexico. At the various gardens the combinations were very beautiful, and exceeded anything that I had witnessed in London or Paris. What with sea-serpents, giant rockets scaling heaven, Bengal lights, Chinese fires, Italian suns, fairy bowers, crowns of Jupiter, exeranthemums, Tartar temples, Vesta’s diadems, magic circles, morning glories, stars of Columbia, and temples of liberty, all America was in a blaze; and, in addition to the mode of manifesting its joy, all America was tipsy.

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Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 5th day 4th of 7th M / Our Meeting this day was small but a season of precious favor to my mind - During a part of the meeting & while Hannah Dennis was speaking, the Guns were firing for rejoicing on the occasion of Independence, which with the ringing of Bells was a little disturbing but not a word of Hannah’s testimony appeard to be lost & the precious covering continued over us - I thought I could say in Truth & Sincerity that I was thankful I was there. — I have often in the course of this Day commemorated it with the same one Year ago when I left N York for home - How time passes - another Year gone, & we who are now On the Stage of life one

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Year nearer to our long homes, & perhaps & indeed no doubt to many of us who now live in this Town it May be the last we shall ever see —Well how necessary a preparation for the final solemn event. - Tho’ I have on my own part to acknowledge many deficiences, yet I am thankful for a renew’d evidence this day, of favor still extended. — Sister Ruth dined & spent the Afternoon & evening with us. RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

1817

March 24, Monday: Pennsylvania issued a charter to Alleghany College.

1824

A description of the aged Reverend Timothy Alden of Yarmouth, Massachusetts in this year would eventually be published in Volume I of Frederick Freeman’s THE HISTORY OF CAPE COD (page 231): We vividly recall the appearance of this aged gentleman, as we saw him last, at the ordination of Mr. Hersey at Barnstable, in 1824. Seated among the clergy and distinguished attendants on the platform, his antique wig conspicuous, in small-clothes, with knee and shoe buckles, and three-cornered hat lying near by — objects of interest to the young, — we regarded his venerable aspect with thoughts running back to antiquity. He sat there, as sometimes stands a solitary, aged oak surrounded by the younger growth of a later period. It was to us the last exhibition of the great wigs and cocked hats; it left also impressions of a bygone age long to be remembered.

1828

November 13, Thursday: Timothy Alden died at the age of 92 after being pastor at Yarmouth for more than six decades.

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in attending to our affairs of getting in readiness to go to Providence. — Attended meeting. Silent - but to me a Season of much reflection. — I feel much at leaving the Meeting only for a time where I had my birth & growth so far Spiritually & Naturally - there are many endearments at the place of my birth but it will not do to dwell too much upon them. —things must be taken as they are & we acquit ourselves as much like men as we can — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS

1831

August 2, Tuesday: Dutch troops invaded Belgium to impose a peace settlement but were stopped dead in their tracks by the French.

Due to lack of students, and financial problems, Timothy Alden, Jr. resigned as president of Alleghany College. (In 1833 the college would become affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The spelling would change from “Alleghany” to “Allegheny.”)

1835

Timothy Alden, Jr.’s “Memorabilia of Yarmouth” was reprinted from his A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES of 1814-1819 into the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st Series, Volume V (1798; reprinted 1835), on pages 54-60. ALDEN’S EPITAPHS

1839

July 5, Friday: Timothy Alden, Jr. died outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The grave is in the Greendale Cemetery in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

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1857

June 20. Saturday. Fog still. A man working on the lighthouse, who lives at the Pond Village, says that he raised potatoes and pumpkins there where a vessel ones anchored. That was when they let the salt water into the pond. Says the flags there now are barrel flags; that the chair flag is smaller, partly three-sided, and has no bur; perhaps now all gone. Speaking of the effect of oil on the water, this mail said that a boat’s crew came ashore safely from their vessel on the Bay Side of Truro some time ago in a storm, when the wind blowed square on to the land, only by heaving over oil. The spectators did not think they would reach the shore without being upset. When I expressed sortie doubt of the efficacy of this, he observed in the presence of Small and others, “We always take a bottle of oil -,when looking for sea. clams, and, pouring out a few drops, can look down six or seven feet.” We dined on halibut caught three miles off the Back Side. There was a carpenter who worked on the lighthouse boarding at Small’s, who had lived sixteen years on the extremity of Cape Ann. When I asked him about Salvages, he said it was a large bare rock, perhaps fifty yards long and a dozen feet high, about two miles from the shore at Sandy Bay, outside Avery’s Rock. That he and all the inhabitants of the Cape always called it “Selvaygias.” Did not know but it had something to do with salvage for wrecks. This man, who is familiar with the shore of New England north of Cape Cod, thought that there was no beach equal to this for grandeur. He thought August the most foggy month. Small thought that the shore at the mouth of Pamet River about held its own. I saw an extract in a Cape (Yarmouth Register) paper from a promised History of the Cape by Dr. Dix, an Englishman, who was owing Small for board, etc. (page 136 of it). There was also advertised “The Annals of Barnstable County and its several Towns,” etc., by Frederick Freeman, to be in two volumes, 8vo, $4.00. This will probably be out first. on the ledges some A child asked concerning a bobolink, “What makes he sing so sweet, Mother? Do he eat flowers?” Talked with an old lady who thought that the beach plums were better than cherries. Visited the telegraph station, tended by one Hall, just north of the light. He has a small volume called the “Boston Harbor Signal Book,” containing the names of some three thousand vessels, their owners, etc., and a code of signals. There were also the private signals of more than a hundred merchants on a large sheet on the wall. There was also a large volume called “The Universal Code of Signals,” Marryat (Richardson, London), 1854, containing the names of some twenty thousand vessels of all nations, but chiefly English, and an extensive system of signalling, by which lie could [carry on] a long conversation with a vessel on almost any subject. He said that he could make out the name seven miles off and the signal sometimes twenty miles.3 Thought there would be a fog as long as the wind was southwest. “How is it in Boston?” I asked. “I will ask,” said be. Tick tick tick — “Wind northeast and cloudy.” (Here it was southwest and thick fog.) tie thought that there [were] more vessels to be seen passing this point than any other in the United States. One day when telegraphing the passing vessels he put in “a fox passing,” for there was one running between the station and the edge of the bank. I observed the name of the brig Leader displayed on a flag for me. The report was, “Brig Leader in.” It may be a month before the vessel reaches Boston. The operator said that last winter the wind between his station and the bank blew him three rods through the air, and he was considerably hurt when he fell. A boy was blown head over heels.The fences were blown up, post and rail. There was no wind just this side the edge of the bank, but if you lay down there and extended your hand over the edge of the bank it would be blown suddenly upward, or if you cast off a large piece of wood it would be blown up thirty or forty feet high. Both boys and men often amuse themselves by running and trying to jump off the bank with their jackets spread, and being blown back. (Small confirmed this.) Hall said that he could not possibly jump off. Sometimes and in some places, pebbles as big as chestnuts are blown far over the bank. Hall said that he saw very large flocks of geese; had counted as many as six hundred go by at once, reaching three miles; and sometimes alight on the water. Talked with Uncle Sam, who was picking gooseberries on the bank, — for the sun shone a short time. He showed me some fossil shells imbedded in stone which he had picked up on the high bank, just south of the light, and laid on his pile of driftwood. He wanted to know something about them. Said that a lecturer down at Pamet River had said, as he was told, that the Norwegians who formerly came to this country cemented them together. He had come down to watch a piece of driftwood, perhaps a stump, which had been lodged on a bar for a day or two. He was trying to make out what it was. There is something picked up on the shore of the Cape and advertised in every paper. This was the third foggy day. It cleared up the next day noon, but the night after and the next day was foggy 3. 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again. It is a serious objection to visiting or living on the Cape that you lose so many days by fog. Small said that a week of fog at this season would be nothing remarkable. You can see that the fog is local and of no great thickness. From time to time the sun almost or quite shines, and you can see half a mile, or to Provincetown even, and then, against all your rules, it thickens up again. An inlander would think [it] was going to clear up twenty times when it may last a week. Small said that they were very common with southerly winds, being blown up from Nantucket Shoals; that they were good for almost everything but corn, yet there was probably less rain there at this season than on the mainland. I have now visited the Cape four times in as many different years, once in October, twice in June, and once in July, having spent in all about one month there, and about one ALDEN third the days were foggy, with or without rain. According to Alden (in Massachusetts Historical Collections, vol. v, First Series, page 57), Nantucket was discovered by a famous old Indian giant named Maushop, who waded the sea to it, and there filling his pipe with “poke,” his smoke made fog. Whence that island is so much in the fog, and the aborigines on the opposite portion of the Cape, seeing a fog over the water at a distance, would say, “There comes old Maushop’s smoke.” The Gloucester carpenter thought August the worst month for fog on the coast. The fog lasted this time, with the exception of one afternoon and one or two slight breakings away, five days, or from Thursday morning till I reached Minot’s Ledge, Monday noon. How much longer it continued on the Cape I do not know. The Cape people with whom I talked very generally denied that it [was] a phenomenon in any degree peculiar to the Cape. They said that it was just such weather at Boston. Indeed, some denied that it was fog at all. They said with some asperity that it was rain. Yet more rain would have fallen in a smart shower in the country in twenty minutes than in these five days on the Cape. When I got home I found that there had been an abundance [of] cloudy weather and rain within a week, but not one foggy day in Concord. Small thought that Lieutenant Davis might have misunderstood him. He meant to say that the offshore current (three miles off) set down the Cape, and wrecks in it went down the coast, the inshore one sets up. I noticed several lengths of fence hereabouts made chiefly of oars, very long ones. A Cape Cod house is low, unpainted, shingled on the sides. They have many windows, even under the roofs to light the closets there, and as the chambers can only be lighted at one end, there are commonly two windows there. Once I saw a triangular blind under the break, though there was no window beneath it. The windows commonly afford a view of the bay or ocean, though the house may be sheltered by some hill, or they are very snugly placed in a hollow, apparently as secluded as among the New Hampshire hills.

December 29, Tuesday: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a descendant of the John Alden and Priscilla Mullens who were a couple of early hoots, created a poem in honor of his famous Mayflower ancestors and their putative proclivities that he would entitle “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” JOHN AND PRISCILLA

Henry Thoreau surveyed, for Abel Brooks, 3 acres 58 rods of woodlot near Mrs. Bigelow and Ebby Hubbard. Mr. Brooks lived on Sudbury Road on the south side between Stow and Devens Streets. Thoreau remarked that he found it easy to do this survey as Brooks had worn a path around it as he walked the bounds each day. The lot was on Walden Street near Brister’s Hill.

View Henry Thoreau’s personal working drafts of his surveys courtesy of AT&T and the Concord Free Public Library: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/Thoreau_Surveys.htm

(The official copy of this survey of course had become the property of the person or persons who had hired this Concord town surveyor to do their surveying work during the 19th Century. Such materials have yet to be recovered.)

View this particular personal working draft of a survey in fine detail: http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/137.htm

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