Page 45. Islands in Taunton Bay, 1785

• Main Author: Putnam, Rufus
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Maine 1785
• Subjects: Cartography; Maps; Maine Land Office; Planbooks; Surveys; Sullivan; Island B; Burnt Island; Black Island; Red Island
• Online Access: https://digitalmaine.com/planbook_8/48; https://digitalmaine.com/context/planbook_8/article/1047/type/native/viewcontent

"Bragdon's Island, Burnt Island, Black Island, Slave Island, Red Island, Island B, and Jordens Island. These Islands all lie in Frenchman's Bay for their relative situation see plan in page 142. Survey'd for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts October 1785 by Rufus Putnam - the whole protracted on this page by a scale of 100 rods to an inch." Also includes surveys of Island A and Beans Island in Taunton Bay, Sowards Island in Flanders Bay, and Pribbles Island in Frenchman's Bay. Taunton Bay is a shallow estuary linking the towns of Hancock, Sullivan and Franklin in Hancock County. https://digitalmaine.com/planbook_8/1047/thumbnail.jpg