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A Statistical View Of The District Of Maine (Danish Edition)
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A Statistical View Of The District Of Maine
Moses Greenleaf
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Moses Greenleaf was an American map-maker and author.
Background
Moses Greenleaf, brother of Simon Greenleaf and eldest of the five children of Moses and Lydia (Parsons) Greenleaf, was born on October 17, 1777 in Newburyport, Massschusetts. In 1790, the family, long prominent in local affairs, moved to New Gloucester in the District of Maine.
Education
Moses attended the short-termed elementary school where he showed proficiency in mathematics and English.
Career
From 1799 to 1806 he kept a general store, first in New Gloucester and later in Bangor, then, this business proving unsuccesful, turned his attention to real estate, in which he had been interested for several years. Entering into a partnership agreement with William Dodd of Boston, owner of a township in Maine later called Williamsburg, he commenced in 1810 the actual settlement of the town in fulfilment of his contract by moving thither with his family.
The remainder of his life was devoted to the task of procuring settlers for the interior of Maine.
His Map of the District of Maine from the Latest and Best Authorities was a great improvement over previous maps, both in detail and in engraving. The volume accompanying it, A Statistical View of the District of Maine; More Especially zvith Reference to the Value and Importance of the Interior: Addressed to the Consideration of the Legislators of Massachusetts, had a two-fold purpose: to give prospective purchasers of land information concerning the interior of Maine, and to give the legislators information and suggestions on which to base legislation affecting settlement and the welfare of settlers.
The book created a feeling of optimism regarding the ability of the District to finance its own destinies, and was influential in promoting the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, a step which Greenleaf, though a Federalist, heartily approved. At the time of the separation in 1820, the plates of the 1815 map were brought up to date, and a new map issued.
Greenleaf continued the collection of data, and in 1829 published the Map of the State of Maine with the Province of New Brunswick and its accompanying volume, A Survey of the State of Maine, in reference to its Geographical Features, Statistics, and Political Economy. An atlas, containing six maps and a diagram, published at the same time to illustrate the book, is of value in the study of the northeastern boundary and the land grants in Maine. Notwithstanding generous legislative support of both ventures, Greenleaf lost money on his publications. He went on, however, with the collection of data, intending at the proper time to produce another map.
In 1844, by correcting the plates of the 1829 map, his heirs carried out this intention as best they could. From 1812 to 1816, Greenleaf was justice of the peace for Hancock County and when Piscataquis County was organized in the latter year, he was appointed justice of its court of common pleas. He prepared a valuable treatise on Indian languages, published in 1824 in The First Annual Report of the American Society for Promoting the Civilisation and General Improvement of the Indian Tribes Within the United States.