Letters Across New England, Month by Month

Where correspondence originated across New England: Massachusetts (with the District of Maine); New Hampshire; Vermont; Connecticut; and Rhode Island, 1771–1783
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County boundaries shown as they stood in 1783, when Maine was still part of Massachusetts and Vermont was an independent republic claimed by New York and New Hampshire. Bubbles are placed by modern coordinates. The default view frames southern New England — zoom out to reach the few far-northern (Maine) letters. Boundaries: Newberry Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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