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Figure S2. — Compass card from earlier form of wooden surveying compass made 

 by Samuel Thaxter of Boston. From an instrument in the collection of the 

 writer. 



Fish Street (now North Street), but in 1800 he was Hving at 54 

 Middle Street (Hanover Street). By 1807 he had moved to a new 

 home on Fleet Street. His last home address, at the time of his 

 death, was 41 Pinckney Street.^°^ 



In the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society there 

 is a receipted bill (fig. 55) from Samuel Thaxter dated July 1, 1801, 

 to Sam Brown, for touching up and repairing nine compasses for 

 the French corvelle Berceau. 



Land records, Massachusetts Historical Society. 



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