91. John B. Moore, surveyed farm for Feb. 10, 11, 12, 18 and 19 ‘53
Thoreau recorded the variation on February 3rd, 1853, as being 9⅞° westerly; when Albert Wood resurveyed portions of Moore’s farm in 1886, he found the variation to have changed by 1½° (although he did not specify whether the change was easterly or westerly).
Reproduced here courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
A draft version of Thoreau’s plans of Moore’s property can be consulted on the Concord Free Public Library’s website (map 94a-c in the collection of Thoreau’s surveys and maps).
Cyrus Benjamin, Measured planting of all crops near house in Lincoln for February 21st ‘53
92. Loring D. auction? Surveyed a strip of land in Lincoln for building barn fence? March 31, 1853
93. For Duncan (?) in Haverhill April 12 to 29, 1853
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/26a
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/26b
94. John Reynolds Surveyed land near Potter for lots. May 17, 1853
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/99a
John B.Moore Surveyed land and buildings. June 28, 1853
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/94a
County – Surveyed Bedford Road. For July 1853.
John Stacy, Wood lot “Framingham” August 30, 1853
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/131
Charles Gordon of Littleton Buttrick surveyed woodlot for. Nov 9, ‘53
97. Thomas F. Hunt House Lot surveyed October 17, 1853
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/72
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/138
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/103
George Brooks Surveyed woodlot for in Acton belonging to Hapgood, Dec 15, ’53
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/49
From Wheeler to J P Brown, surveyed land for, Dec 19 & 21, ‘53
https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/13
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