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 1        Acton/Concord Town Line ... [Sept. 15, 1851]

2a      Plan of A. Bronson Alcott's Estate; Concord, Mass. ... Sept. 22, 1857

2b      [Draft of 2a] Sept. 22, 1857

3       Plan of a Woodlot Near Flint's Pond in Lincoln, Mass. Belonging to Jacob Baker ... Apr. 23, 1852

4       Plan ... of a Small Woodlot in ... Concord--Belonging to Prescott Barrett ... June 10, 1859

5       Plan of a Part of Samuel Barrett's Woodlot Near Annursnack ... Dec. 6, 1851

6       Plan of a Piece of Woodland Belonging to the Estate of Caleb Bates Deceased ... Dec. 22, 1857

7a     Plan of the Court House Grounds and Adjacent Lots ... June 13, 1850

7b     Burying Ground Street ... July 1853

7c     New Road Toward Bedford ... July 1853

7d     Plan of the Town House Lot ... June 13, 1850

7e     Profile View of the Third Section of the New Bedford Road ... [n.d.] (rolled survey)

7f      [Untitled] (rolled survey)

7g      Plan of the Bedford Road at Moore's Swamp (Between the Fences) ... May 3, 1859

7h      [Draft of 7g] May 3, 1859

7i       Plan of a New Road from the N.E. Burying Ground in Concord to William Pedrick's House ... July 1853

7j       Plan of Sleepy Hollow from Plans Made by Cyrus Hubbard in 1836 & 1852 and the New Road Added by Henry D. Thoreau Feb. 1, 1854

9        Plan of the [Wyman/Goose Pond] Woodlot (so called) Belonging to Geo[rge] Heywood Concord Mass. ...Dec. 25, 1857

10      Plan of a Woodlot in the South Part of Concord Belonging to Abel Brooks ... Dec. 29, 1857

11      Plan of the Noah & Joshua Brooks Farm in Lincoln Mass. ... May 26-8-9-+31st, 1852

12      Plan of That Part of Thomas Brooks' Woodland in Lincoln Mass.  Which was Burned Over in the Fall of 1857 ...June 5, 1858

13       J.P. Brown's Woodlot Sold to Wm Wheeler Dec. 19-21, [18]53

14a     Plan of Woodland on Fair Haven Hill in Concord, Mass. Belonging to Reuben Brown ... Oct. 22, 1851

14b     Mainly From Hub[bard']s Plan of Brown's Farm ... [n.d.]

14c     [Draft and notes for 14a; n.d., ca. Oct., 1851]

15       Plan of Woodland in Acton Belonging to Wm. D. Brown The Wood Chiefly White Pine Sold to Warner ...Apr. 12, [18]58

17       A Woodlot in Acton (South Part) Belonging to Stedman Buttrick Sold to Sumner Blood of Acton ...Apr. 18, [18]59

18       Plan of the Boundary Line Between Concord & Carlisle ... Dec. 1851

20       This Plan Represents a Part of the Homestead Farm of the Late General James Colburn Deceased ...Copy of Plan Made by Hubbard about 1830 ... Nov. 6, 1854

23       Measured Area of Concord, Carlisle, Lincoln, Boxborough, Acton, Littleton, Stow, Bedford for Rhodes ...Oct. 1, 1860

24a     Plan of a New Street, from the Depot in Concord, Mass. to the Academy Lane, Through Land of Francis Monroe and Others ... March 1851

24b     Plan Showing the Relation of a Proposed Street to the Depot and Neighboring Streets ... Sept. 1850

25a     [Edward Damon factory site, May 6, 7, 13, 14, 1859]

25b-f   [Rough drafts of Edward Damon's factory lot and other properties; 5 items; n.d.]

26a     Plan of the McHard Lot (so called) Belonging to James H. Duncan Esq. Haverhill Mass. ...[Apr. 12-29, 1853]

26b     Plan of the Little River Lot (so called) Belonging to James H. Duncan Esq. Haverhill Mass. ...[Apr. 12-29, 1853]

28       Plan of a Piece of Meadow in the Easterly Part of Concord Belonging to Mr Ellis ... Dec. 24, 1857

29a     Plan of the Lee Farm (so called) Belonging to David Elwell Concord Mass. ... Dec. 30-31 & Jan. 1, [18]57. Var Jan. 7 ... Jan. 10

30       Plan of a Tract of Land Belonging to the Heirs of Nehemiah Emerson in Haverhill, Mass. ... May 1850 . [Note: Title amended from "Plan of a Part of the House Lot of the Hayes Farm ... "]

31a     RWE [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Lot by Walden ... Dec. 1857

31b     RWE's Woodlot by Walden ... [n.d.]

32      Moore & Hosmer's Lot by RRoad 1849-50

33      Plot of...Part of R.W.E. Woodlot and Meadow by Walden Pond Contained within the Lincoln Bounds ...March 1850

34      Plan of the Sawmill Woodlot (so called), Belonging to R. W. Emerson, Surveyed by Cyrus Hubbard and H. D. Thoreau in 1849 & 1850, Represented in One Plan by H. D. T. Nov. 7, 1854

35a    Plan of the Goose Pond & Walden Pond Woodlots (so called) Belonging to the Heirs of John Richardson, Jr Esq ...Nov. & Dec. 1857

35b    [Untitled; Goose Pond/Walden Pond area] Jan. 2, [18]58

35c    Heirs of John Richardson R.T.S. [n.d.]

35d    Goose Pond Lots R.T.S. [n.d.]

36      Plan of North Part of R.W.E. Woodlot Burned Last March ... Apr. 30, 1860

38      RWE's Land [n.d.]

38.5   Plan of Land on the Bedford Road Belonging to RWE ... Sept. 16, [18]59

40      This Plan Represents the Farm Belonging to Willard T. Farrar, Containing 43 Acres & 93(?) Rods, Copied from the Original of Plan Jan 1850 ...

41      Plan of the Farm Belonging to the Estate of Virgil Fuller (deceased) in the North Part of Concord, Mass. ...Dec. 16, 1852

42      Plan of Robert D. Gilson's Mill in Littleton Mass ... May 9, [18]57

43      Plan of Charles Gordon's Farm Concord Mass. ... Mar. 23, 1858

44      Plan of Land in Concord Mass., Conveyed by E.R. Hoar to F.R. Gourgas ... Apr. 30, 1853

45      Plan of a House Lot in Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Miss Maria Green ... Aug. 31, 1854

46      Plan of a Woodlot in W Part of Stow--Belonging to Mr.--Hale Surveyed for Turner Bryant & James Wood Jr.Jan. 18, [18]53

47      Plan of the Town of Lincoln in the County of Middlesex from Survey Made in 1830 by John G. Hale Fayette Street Boston [copy; n.d.]

48      Plan of Roads from J Hapgood's House to the Centre of Acton ... June 20, 1850 ...

49      Plan of a Woodlot in Acton Mass. Belonging to Simon Hapgood ... Dec. 15, 1853

51a    Plan of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Estate in Concord Mass. ... Aug. 20, 1860

51b    [Draft for 51a; n.d.]

53      Plan of a Farm in Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Edward S. Hoar ... March 1860 (27 & 28) [Notation on reverse: "Snelling Farm, So[uth] Lincoln"]

54      Plan of Woodlots Belonging to to Samuel Hoar, of Concord, Mass., Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau, Ap. 5, 1854 [two surveys on one side of one sheet of paper]: Plan of the Poplar Hill woodlot, (so called) in Concord & Carlisle, Belonging to Samuel Hoar of Concord, Mass.; Plan of the Hutchinson Woodlot (so called), in Carlisle, Mass., Belonging to Samuel Hoar of Concord, Mass.

55      Plan of the Boundary Line Between Land of Moses Prichard and Land of Joseph Holbrook on ... Main Street in Concord Mass. ... May 12, 1860

57      Plan of a Woodlot in Concord Mass. Belonging to Tilly Holden ... Dec. 9, 1854

58a   Plan of a Woodlot in Acton, Mass., Belonging to Abel Hosmer of Concord, Mass. ... Apr. 4, 1854

58b    [Draft of 58a] Apr. 4, 1854

59      Plan of a White Pine Woodlot Large Growth (Very Few Oaks) Belonging to Cyrus Hosmer ... Dec. 28, [18]57

60a    Plan of Edmund Hosmer's Farm in Concord Mass. ... June 17, 18, & 21, 1851

60b    [Copy of 60a on cloth] June 1851

60c    [Draft of 60a] June 17, 18, & 21, 1851

61      Jesse Hosmer's Farm ... Spring of [18]50 [date from reverse of survey]

63a    Plans of Wood & Meadow Lots in the Westerly Part of Concord  Belonging to John Moore Enlarged from Plans Made by Cyrus Hubbard with Additions in Blue & Red Ink by H.D. Thoreau June 3 & 4, [18]56

63b    Plans of Meadow and Wood Lots in the Westerly Part of Concord Belonging to John Hosmer Enlarged from Plans Made by Cyrus Hubbard (With Additions in Blue Ink) by Henry D. Thoreau June 1856

63c    Moore & Hosmer Woodlots by Walden [n.d.]

64      Plans of Woodlot Belonging to John Hosmer ... Oct. 29, [18]59

65a    Plans of a Road (a continuation of another road,) Leading from Land of Luther Hosmer, Near the Road to Sudbury, Through Land of James P. Brown, to the Marlboro Road, at Land of Thomas Wheeler ... May 3, 1851

65b    [Draft of 65a] May 3, 1851

66      Plan of Silas Hosmer's House Lot, in Concord, Mass. ... May 15, 1852

68      A Plot of Abel Moore & John Hosmer's Woodlot 1842 (by Hubbard) ... Copied Dec. [18]57

69      Plan of Land in Haverhill Mass. Belonging to Elizabeth How ... Apr. 20-21, 1853

70      E. [Ebenezer] Hubbard Lot ... [n.d.]

71      Plan of Wood & Pasture Land, in the North part of Concord, Mass., Belonging to the Heirs of Humphrey Hunt ...Dec., 1852

72      Plan of T.F. Hunt's House Lot in Concord Mass. ... Oct. 17, 1853

74      Plan of the Kettell Farm (so called) in Concord Mass. Belonging to Samuel Staples ... Apr. 8 & 9, 1858

76a    Plan of John Le Grosse's Farm in the North-West Part of Concord, Mass. ... Jan. 1853 [Note: Smaller plan inset upper left corner: "Woodland in Carlisle & Acton--Davis Lot"]

76b    [Draft of 76a] Jan. 1853

76c    [Draft of inset plan of Davis lot on 76a; n.d.]

77      Plan of a Tract of land at the Factory Village in the SW Part of Concord Belonging to Samuel Lees ...May 17, [18]59

78      Plan of Land Near the Factory Village, Concord, Mass. Owned by Thomas Lord ... Apr. 12, 1851

80a-g  [Plans for a cow barn and stanchion to be built in Northboro; Dec. 16, 1850]:

     80a     [Cow Barn] West Side
     80b     [Cow Barn] Ground
     80c     [Cow Barn] South End
     80d     [Cow Barn--north end?]
     80e     [Cow Barn]
     80f      Stanchions for Cows ...
     80g     Stanchions for Cows ...

81a    [Land Near Depot (Loring, Wheeler, etc.)], June 21, [18]52

81b    Rough Plan of Land Near the Depot in Concord Mass. Belonging to David Loring

82      Plan of the House Lot of David Loring in Concord, Mass. ... Sep. 17, 1856

83      Plan of Land at End of Texas Street Belonging to D. Loring ... Sep. 13, 1856 (Note: Date amended from 1853)

84      George Loring--[plan for lead pipe machine] Sep. 15, [18]52

85a     Plan of Land Owned by James McCafferty, in the East Part of Concord, Mass. ... March & April 1851

85b     [Draft of 85a] March & April 1851

86      Plan of Land in Concord, Mass. Belonging to Barnard MacKay ... May 25, [18]52

87      Plan of Land on the Lowell Road in "Merrick's Pasture" formerly so called--Belonging to Daniel Shattuck ...Jan. 10, [18]57

88a    Plan of Land and Buildings in Concord Mass. Belonging to the Milldam Company ... April 30, 1853 (Note: This plan also carries the date Oct. 31, [18]55)

88b    Plan of the Same Premises with Additions in Nov. 1855 ... Oct. 31, [18]55

88c    View of the North Side or Rear of the Buildings Oct. 31, [18]55

88d    Land Belonging to the Mill Dam Company ... Apr. 30, 1853

89      Plan of the Ministerial Lot (so called) in the Southwest Part of Concord, Mass. ... Nov. 14 to 25, 1851

90a    Plan of Part of the Ministerial Lot, in the Southeast Part of Concord ... Dec. 9, [18]51

90b    [Draft of 90a] Dec. 9, [18]51

91      Plan of Geo. Minot's Land on the Mill Brook ... Aug. 30 & 31, 1860

92a    Plan of a Piece of Land Near the Depot in Concord, Mass. Purchased by Francis Monroe ... Aug. 17, 1850

92b    Plan of a Piece of land Near the Depot in Concord, Mass. Belonging to Francis Monroe & Others; With a Street Laid Out on the Same ... Aug. 1850

93a    Plan of a Piece of Land in Concord Mass. Belonging to William Monroe Jr. ... Dec. 4, 1860

93b    Plan of Land in Concord Mass. Belonging to William Monroe Jr. ... Dec. 1, 1860

94a    Plan of John B. Moore's Farm Concord Mass. ... Feb. 1853

94b    [Printed item] Plan of John B. Moore's Farm in Concord Mass. Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau. To be Sold at Public Auction on the Premises on Thursday May 10th 1860 at 1 o'clock p.m. N.A.  Thompson & Co. Auctioneers. Office Old State House, Boston.

94c    Plan of John B. Moore's Farm ... Apr. 1860 [apparently the draft for printed plan 94b]

95      Plan of Land in Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Rufus Morse ... Aug. 17, [18]59

96      Copied from Warren Nixon's Plan Made for Bartlett June 27, [18]56 ...

97      Plan of a Woodlot in Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Schuyler Parks ... Apr. 12, 1854

99a    Plan of Land in the Southwest Part of Concord Mass. Belonging to John Reynolds ... May 17, [18]53

99b    Plan of John Reynolds' Premises, Concord Mass. ... March 17, 1854

102    Plan of Land in Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Wm Rice ... Jan. 20, 1858

103    Plan of a Woodlot in Lincoln & Waltham Belonging to the Heirs of John Richardson ... Nov. 12, [18]53

104    J. Richardson's Heirs Walden Pond Lot Dec. 2 & 3, 1857

105    Plan of the Fair Haven Woodlot (so called) Belonging to the Heirs of John Richardson Esq. ... Dec. 3 & 8, 1857

106    Rufus Morse [and] Heirs of John Richardson ... Dec. [18]57

107a  Plan of Concord River from East Sudbury & Billerica Mills, 22.15 Miles, To be used on a trial in the S.J. Court, Sudbury & East Sudbury Meadow Corporation vs. Middlesex Canal, Taken by agreement of Parties, By L. Baldwin, Civil Engineer. Surveyed & Drawn by B.F. Perham. May 1834 [1859/1860] (rolled survey)

107b  Statistics of the Bridges Over Concord River, Between Heard's Bridge and Billerica Dam, Obtained June 22, 23, & 24, 1859

108    Plan of Daniel Shattuck's Cottage House Lot on the Main Street in Concord Mass. ... June 19, 1850

109    Plan of the Cottage House Lot on Main Street, and a Lot on Monroe Street Belonging to Daniel Shattuck ...Oct. 6, 1856

110    Plan of a Woodlot in Concord Mass. Belonging to Daniel Shattuck ... Sept. 11, 1854

113    Plan of the Estate of Daniel Shattuck in Concord Mass. ... Sept. 29, 1860

114    Plan of House Lot Concord Mass. Belonging to Daniel Shattuck ... Nov. 13, 1860 (Notation on reverse in very faint pencil: "Daniel Shattuck's Land Monument Street ... ")

116    [For Marcus Spring] Eagleswood, Perth Amboy [N.J.] Nov. 1856

117    Plan of a Woodlot in the North Part of Framingham Mass. Belonging to Sarah Stacy ... Aug. 3, 1853

119    Plan of a Woodlot Near Walden Pond Belonging to Samuel Staples ... Dec. 8, [18]57

120    Plan of a Woodlot in the Southwesterly Part of Concord Belonging to Cyrus Stow ... Nov. 14, 1850

121a  Plan of a Woodlot on Pine Hill, in the East Part of Concord Mass. Owned by Cyrus Stow ...Feb. 27 to March 3, 1851

121b  Plan of a Woodlot Near Flint's Pond, Lincoln Mass. Belonging to Cyrus Stow ... May 9, [18]59

122    Plan of a Piece of Swamp Land in Bedford Mass. Belonging to Cyrus Stow of Concord ... Feb. 20 to 27, 1851

123    Plan of Land Owned by Cyrus Stow in Concord Mass. Divided into House Lots and a New Street ...Apr. 18, 1851

125a  Plan of Cyrus Stow's Grounds, Concord Mass. ... Oct. 28, 1851

125b  Stow's Yard Plan of Front Yard [n.d.; ca. Oct. 1851]

125c  Front View of Fence [Stow's; n.d.]

126    Nathan & Cyrus Stow ... Jan. 12, 1858

127    Ground Plan of Louis A. Surette's Cemetery Lot ... March 31, [18]57

128    Plan of Meadow Land in Concord Mass. Belonging to Cyrus Temple ... Oct. 3, 1860

129    Plan of the Yellow House Lot, so called ... May 25, 1850

131    Plan of Augustus Tuttle's Farm, Concord Mass. ... Aug. 1853

132a  Plan of a Woodlot in Lincoln Mass., Belonging to Augustus Tuttle ... June 21, 1855

132b  [Draft of 132a] June 21, 1855

133a  Walden Pond [1846]

133b  Walden Pond [draft of 133a; 1846]

133c  Walden Pond R.T.S. [n.d.]

135    Isaac Watts' Woodlot Nov. 1849

136    Plan of Land in Lincoln Mass., Belonging to Daniel Weston ... Aug. 17, 1852

137    Plan of Land in Lincoln Mass., Belonging to Daniel Weston ... Dec. 13, 1852

138    Plan of Land in Lincoln Mass., Belonging to Daniel Weston ... Dec. 17, [18]53

142a  Texas Road [draft; June, 1852]

143    Plan of the "Davis Piece" (so called) in the S.W. Part of Concord Mass. Belonging to Thomas Wheeler ...Apr. 28, 1856

144    Plan of the "House Lot" of Thomas Wheeler Concord Mass. ... Apr. 30, 1856

145a  Plan of the "Ox Pasture" (so called) Belonging to Thomas Wheeler Concord, Mass. ... May 5, [18]56

147    Plan of the Kimball Lot, (so called), Belonging to Charles White Esq., Haverhill, Mass. ... Apr. 1853

148    White Pond Feb. 17 [1851]

149    Plan of Cemetery Lots for Mrs. Whitman May 24, [18]56

150a  Plan of Samuel A. Willis' House & Woodlot at the Factory Village Concord Mass. Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau & William D. Tuttle May 6, 1859 & Apr. 25, 1864

150b  [Draft of 150a] May 6, [18]59

152a  Plan of the Road at the East Quarter School ... Nov. 9, 1855

152b  [Draft of 152a]

152c  [Draft of 152a]

153    [Unidentified; n.d.]

154    [Unidentified; n.d.]

155    [Unidentified; n.d.]

156a  Canada East [n.d.] (Note: This and others among the following appear to be maps copied or traced by Thoreau)

156b  [Untitled; a more detailed copy of 156a; n.d.]

157    [Cape Cod; n.d.]

158    Nantucket [n.d.]

159    Unidentified

160    Unidentified

161    Part of the Map "Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio" in "Ortelii Theatrum Orbis Terrarum," Antwerp, preface dated 1570 ... [copied] Sept. 17, [18]55

162    Norumbega et Virginia 1597 ... copied ... Sept. 17, [18]55

163    Road Between Acton Center & West Acton Nov. 27[?], [18]50

164    Acton Road [n.d.]

165    A Plan of the Public Lands in the State of Maine Surveyed under Instructions from the Commissioners & Agents of the State of Massachusetts and Maine..., Boston, 1835 [one section (that including Mount Katahdin) of a multi-sectional map] 

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