Thoreau’s Chronological Atlas

Mapping Thoreau’s Surveys – An Index

Allan H. Schmidt

May 2010

A Chronological and geographic Index of Thoreau’s Surveys in The Concord Free Public Library (CFPL).

Thoreau’s Surveys are listed below in the reverse order of their creation. If you wish to follow the order in which Thoreau  created his Journals, Volume 1 of the index begins at http://allanhschmidt1935.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?_c01_BlogPart=blogentry&_c=BlogPart&handle=cns!32C3824B079AE090!558

Readers of Thoreau’s Journals may find his corresponding survey sketches helpful to place his journal notes in chronological and geographic context.

The index also may help retrace the sequential path of Thoreau’s journeys to work as a surveyor.

 Herbert Gleason’s 1906 Map of Concord has been used as a geographic base map reference (including his alphanumeric row and column coordinate labels to locate each Gleason zone).

Marcia Moss’ A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library (Geneseo, N.Y.: Thoreau Society, 1976) also has been an invaluable resource and is quoted frequently.

 The outline boundary of each survey has been sketched onto the Gleason map and labeled with the CFPL Survey number and a hyperlink reference allowing for retrieval of the Survey image from the CFPL files provided with approval of the Concord Free Public Library.

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/91.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/113.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/23.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/128.htm

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 … ")

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/114.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/93a.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/93b.htm

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

150ahttp://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_surveys/150a.htm

50b  [Draft of 150a] May 6, [18]59

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/150b.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/121b.htm

77  Plan of a Tract of land at the Factory Village in the SW Part of Concord Belonging to Samuel Lees …May 17, [18]5

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/77.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/4.htm

 

 

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/96.htm

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/132b.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/162.htm

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)

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/88a.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/88b.htm

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

http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Thoreau_Surveys/88c.htm