{"id":21,"date":"2020-03-30T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2020-12-04T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T16:12:23","slug":"mitchell-map-of-1755","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/prior-to-1820\/mitchell-map-of-1755\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Map of 1755"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-zoooom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1804\" src=\"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-799\" srcset=\"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-1024x722.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-768x541.jpg 768w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-2048x1443.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Mitchell-1755-1-1200x846.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Mitchell was from Virginia and educated in Scotland as a doctor.  He moved to London in 1746 and used his interest in botany to work for wealthy patrons.  With no experience in map-making, he put together a map in 1750 which he showed to his clients.  After they provided more data, he up-dated the map in 1755.  The map was used to settle disputes as late as the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mitchell was from Virginia and educated in Scotland as a doctor. He moved to London in 1746 and used his interest in botany to work for wealthy patrons. With no experience in map-making, he put together a map in 1750 which he showed to his clients. After they provided more data, he up-dated the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/prior-to-1820\/mitchell-map-of-1755\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mitchell Map of 1755&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/800"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aroostook.pilib.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}