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1680.1 CAROLINA,
VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, AND NEW IARSEY. This map is listed in
Dunlap, and appeared on page 379 in Geography
Rectified, by Robt. Morden, London 1680 (Burden #523).
The map extends north to the 40th parallel and so
includes southeastern Pennsylvania with no detail. |
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1680.2 A NEW MAP
OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND, by Robert Morden, this map is
page 369 in Morden's Geography Rectified published
in London, 1680 (Burden #522). The coverage extends north
past 40 degrees and so includes a strip of southern
Pennsylvania. |
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1680.3 THE NORTH
WEST PART OF AMERICA, by Robert Morden, another map in
Morden's Geography Rectified published in London,
1680 (McCorkle #680.6, Burden #520). The coverage extends
from Greenland down the northeast coast far enough south
to include Chesapeake Bay. Delaware Bay and New York are
named but nothing in Pennsylvania and the area is a blank.
Why Morden calls it the 'northwest' is unclear, although
it is northwest from London. A map of the same name, but
a different engraving, appears in later editions of
Morden's Geography Rectified. |
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1681.1 A MAP OF
SOME OF THE SOUTH AND EAST BOUNDS OF PENNSYLVANIA IN
AMERICA BEING PARTLY INHABITED, SOLD BY JOHN THORNTON......AND
BY JOHN SELLER....., LONDON. See the discussion in the
Introduction about this map, considered the first map of
Pennsylvania. Its dating and importance was not
recognized until 1923 by Ford and few copies exist. There
is a reproduction of a portion in Soderlund from an
original at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and
it was reproduced in their journal, The Pennsylvania
Magazine of History and Biography, in 1924 which is
the image shown here. It is also reproduced in Burden #541.
The southeast part of the state is shown with the 40th
parallel at the bottom and the line of 40d 30m through
the middle. At top right is the 'SkooleKil' at about 40d
40m. The map thus has the 40th parallel about 40 miles
too far south. The map identifies many landowners, towns,
and features around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bay; the
idea being to show potential settlers (and land buyers)
they were not entering a wilderness; but three fourths of
the map shows empty land so buyers can see the enormous
amount of land for sale. The copy of this map in the
British Library is in A collection of Mr. - Seller's
Four Books of sea-charts & draughts, and there
are four columns of text describing Pennsylvania
underneath. The same map is included in the Blathwayt
Atlas, see Black. A high resolution image of the map
may be seen at Lower
Merion Maps,
the website of the Lower Merion Historical Society. |
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1681.2 FLORIDA,
from A New Geography by Jonas Moore (Burden #538).
This map is essentially a copy of the Duval map 1660.3 of
similar name. The map extends to 40 degrees north and
Lake Erie appears too far south. The Pennsylvania region
is labeled "Nation of Chat." Burden says the
maps in Moore's book were engraved by Herman Moll. |
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1682.1 A CHART OF
THE SEA COASTS OF NEW ENGLAND NEW IARSEY VIRGINIA
MARYLAND & CAROLINA FROM C. COD TO C. HATTARAS, By
Iohn Seller. This map is from John Seller's Atlas
Maritimus or a Sea-Atlas describing the Sea-Coasts in
most of the known parts of the World, by John Seller,
Hydrographer to the King. London. Printed by A. Godbid
and J. Playford for John Seller, and are to be sold by
him at his house at the Hermitage at Wapping, and at his
shop on the West-side the Royal Exchange, 1682. This
edition is sometimes called a miniature or pocket version
of the Atlas Maritimus. This map (McCorkle #682.3,
Burden #549) can be seen at MapForum.Com, Issue 2 in the checklist.
Although not named in the title, 'Penselvania' is named
on the map. Along with the New Jersey map below, this is
believed to be the second appearance of the name
Pennsylvania on a printed map. This map is a smaller and
cruder version of the folio map that appeared in the Atlas
Maritimus of 1675. The same map appears in Seller's Hydrographica
Universalis published circa 1690. |
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1682.2 NEW IARSEY,
by John Seller, from the Atlas Maritimus of 1682
as described above. It shows the Delaware Bay and River
north to above Philadelphia, which is named along with 'Chefter'
and 'New Castle T.' This is the first appearance of
Philadelphia on a printed map, preceding the Holme map of
1683. Southeastern Pennsylvania is called 'Part of
Pensilvania.' In the same edition of Atlas Maritimus
is a map titled VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND (Burden #551) which
extends north to 40 degrees and so includes a strip of
southern Pennsylvania, which is not named. This image is
from the 1690 edition of Seller's A New System of
Geography, which contains exactly the same map, and
is courtesy of the Darlington Memorial Library,
Pittsburgh. Burden (#600) dates this map to 1684 on the
presumption the Atlas Maritimus copies
containing it were actually issued after the title page
date of 1682. |
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1682.3 CARTE DE L'AMERIQUE
SEPTENTRIONALE ET PARTIE DE LA MERIDIONALE DEPUIS L'EMBOUCHIERE
DE LA RIVIERE ST. LAURENS..., a large manuscript map of
eastern North America attributed to Franquelin and dated
to circa 1682. This map is No. 4 in Brown, who reproduces
the northwest quadrant extending from Hudson Bay to
Virginia and west to the Mississippi. The original is in
Paris but a manuscript copy is in the Library of Congress.
Johnson (1974) reproduces the same map. |
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1682.4 LA FLORIDE
Par N. Sanson d.' Abbeville Geogr' Ordre. du Roy. This
map (Burden #546) appears in Curieuse Aenmerckingen
der bysonderste Oost en West-Indische from Joannes
Ribbius, Utrecht 1682. It shows the region below 40
degrees latitude west to beyond the Mississippi. Lake
Erie is too far south and "Virginie" is named.
The map is based on the circa 1650s Sanson maps with no
improvements. |
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1683.1 A
PORTRAITURE OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA IN THE PROVINCE
OF PENNSYLVANIA IN AMERICA, by Thomas Holme Surveyor
General. Sold by Andrew Sowle in Shoreditch, London;
printed in A Letter from William Penn Proprietary and
Governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of
the Free Society of Traders, London 1683, see the
discussion in the Introduction. The pamphlet was
reproduced by James Coleman in 1881, which is the image
here, also reproduced in Burden #557. Sometimes
considered the first map of Pennsylvania, it shows the
planned layout of Philadelphia, the first planned town in
the country. Penn wrote the letter during his visit to
America from October, 1682 to August, 1684. The Society
of Free Traders was a joint stock company organized in
1682 to invest in Pennsylvania. Penn welcomed the capitol
to get his colony up and running and granted the Free
Traders special privileges. This was resented by the
Pennsylvania Assembly which refused to approve the
company's charter. Hence it had no legal status in the
state other than as a land owner and eventually disbanded,
see Soderlund. This map is reproduced and discussed in
Fite & Freeman and is commonly found in map histories.
The numbers on the map refer to a list of names of land
buyers. Penn concocted a complicated scheme of land
purchase. Anyone buying land would be given a town lot in
Philadelphia of a size corresponding to his land purchase.
Unfortunately, Penn was unable to acquire enough
riverfront land from previous settlers to make
Philadelphia large enough for his purposes. This layout
of Philadelphia as originated by Holme was not completely
built up until the nineteenth century. For biographical
information on Holme, see Hough and Corcoran. |
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1683.2 Weslager
mentions a manuscript map titled CAERTE VAN DE SUID
RIVIER dated circa 1683 and contained in the manuscript
of the journal of the second voyage of Jasper Danckaerts,
which is archived at the Long Island Historical Society.
This is long after Dutch authority in the region ended.
The map shown here is a facsimile which appeared in the Memoirs
of the Long Island Historical Society Vol. I 1867.
The map accompanies Journal of a voyage to New York
in 1679-80, by Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter. It
shows a section of the Delaware River below the falls
near Trenton. |
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1683.3 CANADA OU
NOVVELLE FRANCE by Alain Manesson-Mallet from his Description
de l'univers, Paris 1683 (McCorkle #683.3, Burden #565,
611). This small scale map shows the northeast from
Greenland to Virginia. There is no detail in the
Pennsylvania region and the state is not named. The image
shown here is from the 1684 German edition Beschreibung
des ganzen Welt-Kreisses published by Johann David
Zunners, which is identical to the French except for the
text in German at the top. Pennsylvania is called Novelle
Svede and New York is called Hollande. There was another
German edition in 1719 which can be seen at Pugsley
Maps from
McGill University. The color on this copy is not original.
Longitude appears to be east of Ferro. Blank verso. Scale:
1 inch = 600 miles. Size: 5.5 x 4 inches. |
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1683.4 VIRGINIE
DE L'AMERIQUE. This is a small map by Mallet from his Description
de l'univers. It shows the Chesapeake Bay area from
Hatteras to above the 40th parallel, and so includes
southeastern Pennsylvania, which is not identified. The
area is called New France. The map is listed in the
Maryland State Archives as Map #183M5, also in Burden #567,
613. There is also a map titled FLORIDE (Burden #568, 614)
which shows the region south of about the 40th parallel
and west to the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf
coast. The area that would be Pennsylvania is blank and
contains the title cartouche. These maps also appeared in
the German edition of Mallet. |
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1683.5 LE CANADA,
OU NOUVELLE FRANCE, &C. TIREE DE DIVERSES RELATIONS
DES FRANCOIS, ANGLOIS, HOLLANDOIS, &C, PAR N. SANSON
DE ABB.’ GEOGR. ORDRE. DU ROY. by Nicolas Sanson and
originally from Geographische en Historische
Beschryvingh, Utrecht 1683 (McCorkle #683.6, Burden
#575). This small map, first published in 1657, is also
found in several later publications as given by McCorkle.
The image here is from Introductio ad Geographiam
novam et veterem... by Joannis Luyts, Utrecht 1692,
engraved by A. de Winter. It shows the northeast and
Canada with the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes in the
center. The scale is small and Pennsylvania is not named
though the Swedish colony is identified; the towns of
Gustaveburg and Christina appear in New Sweden. This copy
of the map carries a faint version of another map
underneath which can be seen. Longitude west from either
Ferro or Paris, blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 210 miles.
Size: 8.25 x 12 inches. |
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1683.6 CANADA OF
NIEW VRANKRYK GETROKKEN UIT VERSCHEIDE FRANSCHE,
ENGELSCHE, EN HOLLANDSCHE BESCHRYVINGEN ENZ. by Nicolas
Sanson from a Dutch edition (McCorkle #683.5). This is a
Dutch edition of the Sanson map listed above, and
Pennsylvania and Maryland are not named. The map was
first published in 1657 with a French title, LE CANADA,
OU NOUVELLE FRANCE (Burden #325), and Burden says this
Dutch version was published by Joannes Ribbius in L'
Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes, Utrecht 1683. Only the
title is in Dutch, all the map terms are in French. The
map shows the east coast from Newfoundland to Carolina,
and the Swedish "Chriftian" is identified. A
Delmarva peninsula division line, which first appeared on
a 1656 Sanson map, can be seen. Blank verso, longitude
apparently east from Ferro. Scale: 1 inch = 215 miles.
Size: 8 x 11.5 inches. |
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1683.7 DRAUGHT OF
YE SUSQUEHANNES RIVER & HOW SOON YE INDIANS WESTWARD
CAN COME HERE, dated September 7, 1683. A manuscript map
of the Susquehanna River, the original is apparently in
the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. It comes from the
records of Robert Livingston, an agent in New York who
dealt with the Iroquois and other Indians. These records
were reproduced as The Livingston Indian Records, now
online in the journal Pennsylvania
History,
Volume XXIII No. 1, January 1956. An image of the top and bottom of the map with text is shown
here. |
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1684.1 A MAP OF Y.E
ENGLISH EMPIRE IN Y.E CONTINENT OF AMERICA VIZ VIRGINIA
MARY LAND CAROLINA NEW YORK NEW IARSEY NEW ENGLAND
PENNSYLVANIA. W. Binneman sculpsit. Sold by R. Morden at
ye Atlas in Cornhill neer y.e Royal Ex-chang & by W.
Berry at y.e Globe near Charing Cross London. This map by
R. Daniel first appeared circa 1679 (McCorkle #679.1,
Burden #514). In this version the map was altered to
include Pennsylvania. A 1712 version is illustrated at MapForum.Com, Issue 14. The main map shows
the coast from the Chesapeake north. A small inset map
shows the southeast coast. The map is illustrated in
Pritchard & Taliaferro #69 Custis Atlas. |
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1684.2
AFTEYKENIGE VAN DE STADT PHILADELPHIA IN DE PROVINCIE VAN
PENN-SYLVANIA IN AMERICA NA DE COPIE LONDON IN INTNEDER
DUYS LAETEN SYNDEN DOOR JACOB CLAUS. G. DROGENHAM, FEC.
Penn published his A Letter from William Penn... in
Amsterdam in 1684. The Philadelphia map is reduced in
size with other small changes from the 1683 edition. This
image is a modern facsimile. Listed in Phillips page 698,
Burden #581. |
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1684.3 PAS KAART
VAN DE ZEE KUSTEN VAN VIRGINIA TUSSCHEN C. HENRY EN T
HOOGE LAND VAN RENSELAARS HOEK, by Claes Jansz Vooght.
This map is a Dutch version of Hermann's 1673 map and
appeared in the Joannes Van Keulen atlas De lichtende
Zeefakkel (Burden #588). There is a 1692 version and
a still later 1717 version is reproduced in Papenfuse
& Coale, who discuss its history. The map includes
southeastern Pennsylvania. Dunlap dates this map 1690. |
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1684.4 (Northeast)
This manuscript map by one William Hack is reproduced in
Hulbert's photographic collection of American manuscript
maps in the British Library, which is the image shown
here. The map is dated 1684 and covers the east coast
from Virginia to Nova Scotia, only the southern part is
shown here. 'Pennsilvania' is prominently marked on the
Delmarva Peninsula. There is a companion map for the
southeast. |
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1684.5 A map
titled CARTE DE LA LOUISIANE OU DES VOYAGES DU SR. DE LA
SALLE...., par Jean Baptiste Louis Franquelin, 1684 Paris,
shows the eastern United States plus the Caribbean
islands, and so it is a stretch to include it here.
However, it deserves mention as being the earliest French
map seen to include Pennsylvania. The map is listed on
page 563 in Phillips and appears in Volume 63 of the Jesuit
Relations. The image here is a detail from a facsimile held by the Library of
Congress. Pennsylvania lies on the Chesapeake Bay, there
is no Maryland and an enormous Virginia. La Salle was an
active French explorer of the Mississippi River Basin,
and much of the French knowledge of interior North
America came from his expeditions. |
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1684.6 ABRIS
DER STADT PHILADELPHIA IN DER PROVINZ PENSYLVANIA IN
AMERICA, from Beschreibung Der in America neu-erfunden
Provinz Pensylvania, Hamburg 1684. Penn published a
German version of his A Letter from William Penn... in
Hamburg. The Philadelphia map was redrawn although it is
the same size as the Dutch version above, #1684.2. Both
can be seen in M. P. Snyder, Figures 2, 3; also in Burden
#583. |
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1685.1 NOVI
BELGII NOVAEQUE ANGLIAE: NEC NON PARTIS VIRGINIAE TABULA
MULTIS IN LOCIS EMENDATA per Nicolaum Visscher. This
is a later version of the map of the northeast originally
published by Jansson (Burden #305) in 1651, then by
Visscher in 1655 and 1656 (Burden #315). This image is
from the Library of Congress where it is dated Amsterdam?,
1685. Pennsylvania is named on the map. This map is
sometimes dated circa 1690, for example both Dunlap and
Van Erman so date it. It is reproduced in Pritchard &
Taliaferro #11 dated circa 1684. The maker very likely
refers to Visscher's son of same given name. |
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1685.2 A NEW MAP
OF NEW ENGLAND. NEW YORK. NEW IARSEY. PENSILVANIA.
MARYLAND. AND VIRGINIA. Sold by Iohn Thornton at ye Platt
in ye Minories. By Robt. Morden at the Atlas in Corn-hill.
And by Phillip Lea at ye Atlas & Hercules in the
Poultry. London. This map is of uncertain date (McCorkle
#680.4, Phillips page 671 dated 1690?) and a later state
was dated 1686 by the British Library. The map is
illustrated in Pritchard & Taliaferro #70 Custis
Atlas and in Burden #616 dated 1685. The date of 1685 is
given by Stevens and Tree (Tooley, Chapter 2) with
subequent editions circa 1686, 1690, 1715-20. The later
editions bear George Willdey's imprint. This map is
illustrated in Swift (2001) where it is dated 1704. One
of the interesting things about it is the 40th parallel
goes through New Castle Town, used as a reference point
in defining Penn's grant. |
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1685.3 THE
ENGLISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA BY R.B. The R. B. is a
pseudonym for the publisher Nathaniel Crouch and the map
appears in a book of the same name published in London in
1685 (McCorkle #685.1, Burden #605). It shows the
coastline from Maine to Carolina severely distorted to
fit on a vertical page. Philadelphia and 'Pensilvania'
are named and 'Bridlinton', later renamed Burlington in
New Jersey. A German edition of the map and book appeared
in 1697 with the map titled Das Englische America. |
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1685.4 A NEW MAP
OF THE ENGLISH EMPIRE IN THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA, VIZ.
NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW IARSEY, PENSILVANIA, MARYLAND,
VIRGINIA, AND CAROLINA. by John Thornton, Robert Morden,
Phillip Lea. This is a title page for an apparently
unpublished map (see McCorkle #685.3 and Burden #616 for
discussion) which has a huge title cartouche imposed over
a map of the 'Lake Erius or Fells' region. An
accompanying sheet is the first state of map 1685.2.
There are two other maps in the set that do not show
Pennsylvania. |
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1685.5 NOVI
BELGII NOVAEQUE ANGLIAE NEC NON PENNSYLVANIAE, ET PARTIS
VIRGINIAE TABVLA by Justus Danckerts. The dating of this
map is uncertain (McCorkle #680.2). Sometime circa 1670-80
Danckerts published a derivative of the Jansson-Visscher
maps which of course did not include Pennsylvania. This
1685 State 2 version is illustrated at MapForum.Com, Issue 14, where the State 1
map is dated circa 1673. This map is sometimes seen dated
in the 1690's. Size: 18 x 21.5 inches. Image from
the the Heritage Map Museum CD by permission. |
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1685.6 A NEW MAP
OF VIRGINIA MARYLAND AND THE IMPROVED PARTS OF
PENNSYLVANIA & NEW JERSEY, sold by Christopher Browne
at the Globe near the West End of St. Paul's Church,
London. This map is #86 in Stevens and Tree (Chapter 2 of
Tooley) and dated circa 1685. There was another issue
circa 1700. John Senex revised it in 1719 and published
it in A New General Atlas in 1721 (McCorkle #719.7,
Phillips page 671). The early version of the map is shown
in Papenfuse & Coale, and a comparison of the titles
for the three versions also appears there. Only
southeastern Pennsylvania is shown and settlements along
the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers are named. This is
one of the earliest maps (perhaps the earliest) to show a
boundary line between Maryland and Delaware. The 1719
version is reproduced in Stephenson & McKee. The map
appears in Burden #694 dated circa 1692. |
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1685.7 A MAPP OF
VIRGINIA, MARY=LAND, NEW=JARSEY, NEW=YORK & NEW
ENGLAND. by John Thornton at the Sundyall in the Minories
and by Robert Green at ye Rose and Crowne in Budgrowe.
This map is a later version of 1678.1 altered to show
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. This map is #88 in Stevens
and Tree (Chapter 2 of Tooley) which lists two early
versions circa 1673-80 and this later one circa 1685. It
shows the coast from the Chesapeake to the Hudson. A
small inset map shows New England. Both the Chesapeake
and the Delaware are shown in considerable detail and
accuracy as on Hermann's map. This map is shown as #673.2
in McCorkle, though McCorkle is refering to the earlier
state. The only apparent difference in the states are
added names. |
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1685.8 (Chesapeake
Bay) Mathews, page 259, lists a manuscript map under this
date showing Maryland and Delaware with part of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey, chiefly Chesapeake and
Delaware Bay, and says a reproduction appears in the Facsimiles
of B. F. Stevens as #1237 in Volume 12. Stevens
lists the map as being in the Auckland Manuscripts at
Kings College, Cambridge, and offers no date; however by
inference he would date it to the Revolutionary period.
The map shows only the southeastern tip of Pennsylvania
and names Lancaster, Chester, and Philadelphia. It is
likely that Mathews is mistaken and the map dates later. |
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1685.9 A LARGE
MAPP OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENSYLVANIA, EAST AND WEST
NEW JERSEY, & NEW YORK, by John Thornton. This map is
dated 1682 at the Maryland State Archives (Map #182T5),
however the earliest date of appearance noted seems to be
in a Thornton edition of the Atlas Maritimus of 1704. It
is thought to have been made between 1682 and 1685 and
the later date is used here as more reasonable. This is
considered the first version of another map (1701.2) of
similar title issued circa 1701. |
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1685.10 (Southeastern
Pennsylvania) This is an untitled manuscript map of the
region between the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers called
"Chambers Map from the Delaware to the Susquehanna,
1685" by the Pennsylvania State Archives, who
describe the map online at PHMC Doc
Heritage: Chamber's Map. That image is shown here. |
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1685.11 MAP OF
MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK,
AND CAROLINA. This map is attributed to John Thornton and
listed in the Maryland State Archives as MSA SC 1427 -1-457.
It has not been seen elsewhere and may be one of the
other Thornton maps listed here. |
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1685.12 A
GENERALL MAP OF THE CONTENANT AND ISLANDS WHICH ARE
ADJACENT TO JAMAICA [with] THE ENGLISH EMPIRE by Philip
Lea, London 1685. This map is divided into two halves;
the bottom half is a large scale map of Jamaica. The top
half is the title map of the Caribbean and southeast
United States containing a small inset map of the middle
Atlantic region titled THE ENGLISH EMPIRE, which is the
map of interest here for Pennsylvania. The state is named
as is "Philidolphia". This inset map also
appeared in Lea's Hydrographia Universalis,
circa 1696. This map was seen for sale by a vendor and is
#608 in Burden. |
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1686.1
AMERIQUE
SEPTENTRION.LLE: composée, corigée, et augmetée, sur
les iournaux, mémoires, et observations les plus justes
qui en ón'etes.tes en l'année 1685 & 1686, par
plusieurs particuliés par I Baptiste Louis Franquelin, g
du Roy. This manuscript map can be dated either 1685 or
1686 based on the imprimatur. The Library of Congress
dates it 1685. It shows eastern North America up to
Hudson Bay. Pennsylvania is not named, the area is called
'Nouvelle Suede', which indicates earlier preparation
than the dates on the map. The image shown here is a
detail of the Pennsylvania region from the Library of
Congress copy, which is a blank
except for identifying Virginia, New Sweden, and New York.
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1687.1 A MAP OF
THE IMPROVED PART OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSILVANIA IN
AMERICA: begun by Wil. Penn, Proprietary & Governour
thereof anno 1681. This title appears across the top with
a second title in the cartouche A MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF
PENNSILVANIA CONTAINING THE THREE COUNTYES OF CHESTER,
PHILADELPHIA & BUCKS as far as yet Surveyed and Laid
out, ye divisions or distinctions made by ye different
coullers, respects the Settlements by way of Townships.
by Tho. Holme, Survey'r Gen'l ; F. Lamb sculp. is at
bottom. To the left is another cartouche with "To
the Worthey William Penn, Esq; Proprietor of Pennsilvania
in America.This Map is Humbly Dedicated By John Thornton
& Robert Greene." This is the large (5 x 3 feet)
version of Holme's map and the image here is from the
Library of Congress where a more detailed
image can be
seen, also in Burden #628. A smaller version (about 21 x
16 inches) with a somewhat different title was printed
about the same time: A MAPP OF YE IMPROVED PART OF
PENNSYLVANIA IN AMERICA DIVIDED INTO COUNTYES TOWNSHIPS
AND LOTTS SURVEYED BY THO: HOLME. Sold by P. Lea at ye
Atlas and Hercules in Cheapside (Burden #669 who dates it
circa 1689). This version can be seen at the Lower
Merion Maps
page of the Lower Merion Historical Society. The map
shows the counties of Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks,
the founding counties of the state created in 1682. After
the 1683 map, this is the second founding map of the
state prepared by Thomas Holme. It is reproduced in color
in Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Schwartz (2000), Pritchard
& Taliaferro #71 Custis Atlas, and Swift. The smaller
map is #68 in Stevens and Tree (Chapter 2 of Tooley),
where three versions are listed: 1687, 1715 with George
Willdey replacing Lea, 1730 with Willdey's imprint
removed. There appear to have been other editions also.
The most detailed discussion of this map and its varients
is by Klinefelter (1970) with reproductions. |
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1687.2 A NEW MAP
OF VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENSILVANIA, NEW YARSEY, by Robt.
Morden. This map is listed by Dunlap in his checklist of
Delaware maps, also listed by the Library of Congress.
The map appears in The present state of His Majesties
isles and territories in America ... by Richard
Blome, London 1687. A version of this map was also in
Morden's 1688 Geography Rectified... replacing
map 1680.2. The 1688 French publication of this map is
shown below and is somewhat different. The map extends
past 40 degrees and includes southeastern Pennsylvania,
naming Philadelphia and Chester, and some apparent Indian
villages along the Susquehanna. Longitude appears west
from London, blank verso. Scale: 1 inch = 50 miles. Size:
5 x 4 inches. |
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1688.1 A NEW MAP
OF NEW JARSEY AND PENSILVANIA BY ROBT. MORDEN , page 567
from Geography Rectified: Or A Description of the
World, .....The Second Edition Enlarged by Robert
Morden London, Printed for Robert Morden and Thomas
Cockerill MDCLXXXVIII (Burden #650). The first edition
appeared in 1680 obviously without Pennsylvania. There
was a 3rd edition in 1693 and a 4th in 1700, which appear
to be just reprints of the 2nd. Some of the maps in the
geography also appeared in Morden's Atlas Terrestris
published around 1687-88, and it is unclear if this map's
first appearance was there or in the Geography.
Settlements along the Delaware are indicated and the
Susquehanna (called Sasquahanagh) River is shown emptying
into Chesapeake Bay. Delaware is included as part of
Pennsylvania. There is text along the bottom of the map
and along the top 'A Description of Pensilvania and New
Jarsey'. The verso is page 568 with text. The map of
Virginia and Maryland in this edition, unlike the 1680
edition, does not extend far enough north to include
Pennsylvania. Longitude appears east of Ferro at bottom,
west of London at top. Scale: 1 inch = 35 miles. Size: 5.75
x 4.75 inches (map only). |
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1688.2 A MAP OF
FLORIDA AND THE GREAT LAKES OF CANADA, by Robt. Morden (Burden
#653). This map appears on page 587 of Morden's Geography
Rectified, and is a small map of the east coast from
New York to Florida and west to the Mississippi.
Pennsylvania is named and the Great Lakes shown with some
accuracy, indicating that Morden had access to French
maps or other maps that copied them. This particular
image is from the 1693 edition and is identical to the
1688 version. Set in a page of text, it names
Pennsylvania and some of the other colonies, but not
Philadelphia. Longitude east from Ferro, text on verso.
Scale: 1 inch = 370 miles. Size: 5.25 x 5 inches. |
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1688.3 PAS CAERT
VAN NIEU NEDERLAND, VIRGINIA, NIEU ENGELAND ALS MEDE PENN-SILVANIA,
MET DE STAD PHILADELFIA VAN BASTON TOT C. CARRICK by
Hendrick Doncker inde Nieuwen brugsteeg. This map
contains an inset of Thomas Holme's plan of Philadelphia
at the top left and its date is uncertain (McCorkle #688.1,
Burden #644). There is an alternative title under the map
of Philadelphia vis. A CHART OF THE SEA COASTS OF NEW
NEDER LAND, VIRGINIA, NEW ENGLAND, AND PENN-SILVANIA With
the City of Philadelphia, from Baston to Cabo Karrick. It
can be seen at MapForum.Com, Issue 2 checklist, which says
it may date earlier, say circa 1684-85, as an ad for it
appeared circa 1685. Another version, dated 1698, can be
seen at New York
State Historical Maps. The map was reprinted with
changes by Gerard van Keulen in 1720 and that map can
also be seen at MapForum.Com right below this one. |
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1688.4 PARTIE DE
L'AMERIQUE SETENTRIONALE par R. Morden from L'Amerique
Angloise... by Richard Blome, Amsterdam 1688 (McCorkle
#688.5, Burden #638). This map shows the northeast from
Greenland to Virginia. The Pennsylvania region is a blank
and the state is not named though 'Delawares bay' is
named. |
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1688.5 AMERICA
SETTENTRIONALI COLLE NUOUE SCOPERTE FIN ALL 'ANNO 1688,
by Vincenzo Coronelli. This map is from one of the gores
making up Coronelli's globe of 1688 and carries the name
Pensiluania. It is reproduced in Brown, No. 5, and more
of it is also shown in Johnson (1974). This is one of the
earliest depictions of Pennsylvania on a globe. |
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1688.6 CARTE DE L'AMERIQUE
SEPTENTRIONALE DEPUIS LE 25..... by Jean Baptiste Louis
Franquelin. This manuscript map is reproduced in Brown,
No. 6 and in Schwartz & Ehrenberg. It shows New
France and as far west as the Mississippi valley. The
Pennsylvania region is a blank except for the name 'Pensilvanie'
and an indication of the Ohio River, 'Belle Riviere.' A
detail of the Pennsylvania region is shown here from a
later manuscript copy in the Library of Congress.
The original is in the Archives du dépôt des cartes et
plans de la marine. Hayes (Map 83) illustrates what
appears to be a later and slightly different manuscript
copy of this map dated to 1699 and also held in French
archives. |
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1688.7 NOUVELLE
CARTE DE LA PENSYLVANIE MARYLAND, VIRGINIE ET NOUVELLE
IARSEY. This map appeared in the French edition of
Richard Blome's The present state of His Majesties
isles and territories in America ... which was
titled L'Amerique Angloise, ou description des Isles
et Terres du Roi D'Angleterre, dans L'Amerique..., published
in Amsterdam by Abraham Wolfgang. It is listed as Map #188B5
at the Maryland State Archives, also Burden #640. Image
courtesy of the Darlington Memorial Library, Pittsburgh. |
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1688.8 THE NORTH
WEST PART OF AMERICA, by R. Morden at ye Atlas in
Cornhill; another map in Morden's Geography Rectified
published in London 1688 (Burden #648). This map is
similar to the one of the same name, map 1680.3, that
appeared in the 1680 geography, but is a different
engraving. Nothing in the Pennsylvania region is named
and the area is a blank. The Great Lakes are surprisingly
accurate compared to the 1680 map, and have the modern
names except for Lake Michigan which is called Illonois.
This small scale map also appears in later editions of
Morden's Geography Rectified, and this image is
from the 1693 edition. The map appears in a page of text
on Greenland which continues on the verso. Longitude west
from London at top, east from Ferro at bottom. Scale: 1
inch ~ 500 miles. Size: 4.5 x 5.25 inches (map only). |
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1689.1 VIRGINIA,
MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIA, EAST & WEST NEW JARSEY. by
John Thornton and William Fisher, from The English
Pilot, The Fourth Book, London (Burden #667). The
English Pilot was a sea atlas used for sailing
instructions by English mariners, and The Fourth Book
covered American waters. It was the first collection of
English charts detailing the Atlantic coast. It was first
published in 1689 and Verner records 37 editions up to
1794. This map is listed on page 671 in Phillips dated
1690?. In 1671 John Seller had issued The English
Pilot, The First Book which covered the English
coast. A second edition appeared in 1677 which involved
Thornton & Fisher. This map is reproduced in
Papenfuse & Coale, and the map from the second
edition of The Fourth Book published in 1698 (State
2) is reproduced in Stephenson & McKee. It includes
southeastern Pennsylvania with names of settlements along
the Delaware River, such as 'Philadelphia City'. Verner
records 5 states of the original map, 2 states of a new
engraving first published in 1743, and a pirated plate
appearing in 1749 and 1767. There is also a French
version published by Jaillot circa 1700 titled "Carte
particuliare de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsylvania, la
Nouvelle Iarsey Orient et Occidental." It is listed
in the Maryland State Archives as MSA SC 1427 -1-52, MSA
SC 1399 -1-200, and in Burden #766. |
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1689.2 A NEW
CHART OF THE SEA COAST OF NEWFOUNDLAND, NEW SCOTLAND, NEW
ENGLAND, NEW JERSEY, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, PENNSILVANIA,
AND PART OF CAROLINA, by Iohn Thornton hydrographer (McCorkle
#689.5). This sea coast map also appears in The
English Pilot, The Fourth Book. Phillips, page 671,
lists this map with a slightly different title and dates
it 1685?. Apparently this same map is reproduced in
Burden #622 with a circa 1685 date and the Atlas
Maritimus as source. |
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1689.3 PARTIE
ORIENTALE DU CANADA OU DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE... by
Vincenzo Coronelli (McCorkle #689.2, Burden #657). This
map shows the northeast from Newfoundland to the
Carolinas. Pennsylvania is named but the Delaware is
identified as Novvelle Svede. This map can be seen at Pugsley
Maps from
McGill University, and this image is from the National
Archives of Canada. McCorkle (#704.1) lists another
version for 1704. There is a companion map titled PARTIE
OCCIDENTALE DU CANADA OU DE LA NOUVELLE FRANCE... which
shows just the Great Lakes area west to the Mississippi (Burden
#630). The English colonies are not identified though
western New York and Pennsylvania are included. It can be
seen at Civilization.ca
- VMNF - Coronelli's Map of the Great Lakes, 1688. |
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1689.4 NOVA
TABULA GEOGRAPHICA COMPLECTENS BOREALIOREM AMERICAE
PARTEM; IN QUA EXACTE DELINEATAE SUNT ... PENSYLVANIA,
VIRGINIA, ... by Nicolas Visscher (McCorkle #689.8). This
is the son of the original Visscher. McCorkle illustrates
four states of this map which appears in Dutch atlases
into the early 1700's, later versions published by "Petrum
Schenk Iunior." It is basically a map of the
northeast similar to the Jansson-Visscher maps but with
considerably more detail and geographical coverage. It is
sometimes matched with an eastern map extending the
coverage to Newfoundland. This image is from the Library
of Congress, where it can be seen in greater detail, and comes from Atlas
Minor sive Geographia Compendiosa, Amsterdam, dated
circa 1717 by the LOC. However, the map matches the first
state as described in McCorkle. Burden #731 dates the map
circa 1696 and says it is difficult to date. |
