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1750.1 MAPA DE
UNA PARTE DE LA AMERICA SEPTENTRIONAL PARA SERBIR A LA
INTELLIGENCIA DEL RAQUERDO..., a Spanish manuscript map
showing the east coast from Virginia to Labrador. This
image is a detail showing only the Pennsylvania region,
the complete
map can be
seen at the Library of Congress site. The map was
probably made in 1750 or 1751 per the note 'Los limites
propuestos dentro las memorias de los Señores
Commissarios Inglezes del 21 Septbre. 1750, y Enero 1751
... .' The prime meridian of Paris is used, so it likely
derives from French maps. There seem to be few Spanish or
Italian maps showing English colonial America, or maybe
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1750.2 CARTE DE
LA LOUISIANE..., Par le Sr. Bellin Ingr. ordre. de la
Marine. 1750. (McCorkle #750.1, 755.3; Sellers & van
Ee #74, 75, 90, 91) This map shows the eastern United
States west to beyond the Mississippi. It appeared in Remarques
sur la carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale published
in 1755 and possibly as a separate sheet. This image is
from the Library of Congress. |
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1750.3 A MAP OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AMERICA FROM THE HEAD OF HUDSON'S
BAY TO THE SOUTHERN BOUNDS OF GEORGIA, WITH THE
INTERVENTION OF CANADA, published pursuant to Act of
Parliament Novr. 1750. for Owen's Magazine of Magazines (McCorkle
#750.3) . The title is in a strip across the top and this
map shows the northeast from Newfoundland to Carolina and
west to just beyond Lake Erie. Philadelphia, Bucks, and
Canoogo are named, as well as Indian tribes. The boundary
line for Pennsylvania does not include Delaware (given to
Maryland) and extends only just past the Susquehanna. |
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1750.4
PENSYLVANIA NOVA JERSEY ET NOVA YORK CUM REGIONIBUS AS
FLUVIUM DELAWARE IN AMERICA SITIS, per Matth. Seutterum S.C.A.
geogr. Aug. Vind.. Tob. Conr. Lotter sculps. Aug. V. This
map appeared in several Suetter and Lotter atlases with
Lotter's name alone in later editions (he was Suetter's
son-in-law). The map includes most of New York and
Maryland and extends west to just beyond the Susquehanna.
Much of the detail is from the Lewis Evans map of 1749,
see Docktor (1993) for a discussion on the states and
dating of this map. Image from the Heritage Map Museum Cd
by permission. |
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1750.5 REISE
CHARTE DURCH PENSYLVANIEN UND ANDRE ANGRANJCNDE
PROVINGIEN..., a manuscript map online at the Bethlehem
Digital History Project and dated circa 1750-55. The
full title in English is "TRAVEL MAP through
Pennsylvania and other Bordering Provinces, with Notation
of all the Estates Living Places, and Churches, and Schoolhouses
of the Unified Brethren, known as the UNITAS FRATRUM
also some individual families connected to them, as
well as various Inns and Roadways." It shows
southeastern Pennsylvania. |
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1750.6 (Middle
Atlantic states showing rivers and mountains and location
of sea shells on the tops of the mountains). This
manuscript map was found listed under #32 in the map
archives of the American
Philosophical Society attributed to John Bartram and
dated to the 1750s. The Society provides the following
description: "As early as 1741, John Bartram sent
some fossil sea shells to Sir Hans Sloan; other shells
were sent to his London friend Peter Collinson in 1742.
He wrote to Collinson in 1743 or 1744 that he had
observed such fossils everywhere, 'even on the top of the
mountain that separates the waters of Susquehanna and St.
Lawrence.' (William Darlington, Memorials of John Bartram
and Humphry Marshall [Philadelphia: 1849], p. 169.)
Bartram was used to making rough maps of his travels and
he made no pretense of being a competent surveyor. He
apologized to Collinson for a map which he said was 'Clumsily
done, —having neither proper instruments nor
convenient time,' since he was drawing by the early light
of dawn or by candlelight. Franklin wrote his friend
Jared Eliot on 16 July 1747 of Bartram's discoveries: The
great Apalachian Mountains, which run from York [Hudson]
River back of these Colonies to the Bay of Mexico, show
in many Places near the highest Parts of them, Strata Sea
Shells, in some Places the marks of them are in the solid
Rocks. 'Tis certainly the Wreck of a World we live on! We
have Specimens of those Sea shell Rocks broken off near
the Tops of those Mountains, brought and deposited in our
Library [the Library Company of Philadelphia] as
Curiosities. If you have not seen the like, I'll send you
a Piece. (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [New Haven:
Yale University Press: 1961], vol. 3, p. 169.) The
endorsement on the back reads, in Franklin's hand: 'Mr.
Bartram's Map very curious.' " An image of the map
is provided at the Society's website. It shows the
Chesapeake and Delaware Bay area back to the mountains
and is crudely drawn. A general catalog of maps in the
American Philosophical Society collections is given by
Smith, M. D. |
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1751.1 A MAP OF
THE MOST INHABITED PART OF VIRGINIA, CONTAINING THE WHOLE
PROVINCE OF MARYLAND WITH PART OF PENSILVANIA, NEW JERSEY
AND NORTH CAROLINA, by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson.
Peter Jefferson was Thomas's father. The image here is
from a Library of Congress copy dated 1755. Although an
important map for Virginia history, this one was rather
quickly superseded by the Evans and Mitchell maps of 1755
and by the events of the French and Indian war. This map
is best known from the updated version that appeared in
Faden's The North American Atlas in 1777, and that
version is reproduced in Fite & Freeman #61. The
original is reproduced in Schwartz & Ehrenberg.
Southern Pennsylvania is largely a blank in the original,
but is shown in some detail north to the Forks of the
Ohio in the 1777 version. A 1755 version is reproduced in
Stephenson & McKee and the map can be seen at the
University of Virginia site Exploring
the West from Monticello: Chapter 3, where it is dated 1754.
Stevens and Tree (Chapter 2 in Tooley) list about seven
versions; Pritchard & Taliaferro #30 list eight
versions and provide a discussion of the map. A circa
1755 French version by de Vaugondy is titled CARTE DE LA
VIRGINIE ET DU MARYLAND. |
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1752.1 A MAP OF
PHILADELPHIA AND PARTS ADJACENT WITH A PERSPECTIVE VIEW
OF THE STATE HOUSE, by N. Scull and G. Heap. This map
contains the first known image of Independence Hall, then
called the Pennsylvania State House, shown in this close up. The early maps of
Philadelphia are a subject all their own and usually
considered separate from maps of Pennsylvania, see for
example Wheat & Brun, where this map is No. 454. Most
Pennsylvanians also consider Philadelphia a separate
entity, rather the way Marylanders look upon the District
of Columbia, and New Yorkers look upon New York City.
This image is from a copy in the Library of Congress,
Wheat & Brun #454-55. Reduced versions appeared in
the Gentleman's Magazine, 1753 and 1777, as listed by Sellers
& van Ee #1306-7; and in Faden's North American
Atlas, Sellers & van Ee #1319-21. M. P. Snyder,
Figures 11-16, illustrates versions of this map as well
as Heap's views of Philadelphia. |
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1752.2 KARTE VON
CANADA VON HERRN CL LE BEAU HERAUSGEGEBEN Im: Eben sc:
Francofurti ad Moenum (McCorkle #752.1). This is a German
copy of map 1738.1 by Claude Le Beau, there was also a
1756 version. McCorkle shows a comparison of all three. |
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1752.3 CARTE
MINERALOGIQUE, OU L'ON VOIT LA NATURE DES TERRIENS DU
CANADA ET DE LA LOUISIANE. Dressee par Philippe Buache...,
de Mr. Guettard de la meme Acade. 1752. Desbruslins fils
sculps (McCorkle #752.2). This is one of the earliest
geological thematic maps of North America, shown west to
beyond the Mississippi with an inset of the St. Lawrence
River. A long table of symbols (Explicauon des Caracteres)
on the right side includes Charbon de Terre, Granit,
Marbre, Petrole, etc. No symbols appear in present day
Pennsylvania. The map appears in Mémoire dans lequel
on compare le Canada à la Suisse par rapport à ses
minéraux, from Suite des Memoires de
Mathematique et de Physique, Tires des Registres De
L’Academie Royale des Sciences De L’Annee M.D
CCLII. Jean-Etienne Guettard was a French scientist
who also prepared some of the earliest mineralogical maps
of France in the 1740s. He visited America circa 1750.
There was a second printing of his memoire by Schreuder
and Mortier Amsterdam 1761. |
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1752.4 A MAP OF
THE OHIO COUNTRY showing the places in Canada west of
Niagara visited by John Patten during his captivity by
the French, 1750-1751. This is a manuscript map held by
the Library of Congress and described in Brown #16, who
gives it this title. Patten was an Indian trader and one
of the first to get to know the Ohio country. His map
covers the course of the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers from
Pennsylvania into Indiana, and has the first map note on
"Sea Coal." This map is discussed in great
detail by Eavenson. |
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1752.5 A NEW
& ACCURATE MAP OF LOUISIANA, WITH PART OF FLORIDA AND
CANADA, AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRIES. Drawn from surveys,
assisted by the most approved English & French maps
& charts, the whole being regulated by astronl.
observations. By Eman. Bowen, London, 1752. This map
shows the region from Maine to Florida and west to the
Rockies. Bowen has Canada extending down into
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is named and a few Indian
villages. This image is from the Library of Congress. |
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1753.1 MERCER'S
MAP. An untitled manuscript map of the Ohio Company's
lands on the Ohio River with proposed location of fort
and settlement, signed G. Mercer. Virginia claimed the
Ohio country, so called, and a joint stock company called
the Ohio Company was formed in Virginia to exploit the
region. Ignoring the Forks of the Ohio, Mercer proposes
building a fort downstream along the Ohio River near the
present day town of McKees Rocks. This location was in
fact considered when it came time to build Fort Pitt
around 1760. This map is important because it is one of
the earliest local maps of the Pittsburgh region. This
black & white image is from a reproduction in Hanna.
The map is reproduced in Schwartz (1994), in Brown No. 17,
and in Hulbert(1907). |
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1753.2 CARTE DES
PAYS CONNUS SOUS LE NOM DE CANADA, DANS LAQUELLE SONT
DISTINGUEES LES POSSESSIONS FRANCOISES, & ANGL...,
par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils geographe ordinaire du
Roi (McCorkle #753.1, #755.35; Sellers & van Ee #15).
A map of the northeast from the St. Lawrence to the
Chesapeake and west to include the Great Lakes. There
were several states, the 1778 one (map 1778.10), CARTE DU
CANADA ET DES ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMERIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE...,
is one of the first maps to name the United States (Etats-Unis)
in the title. McCorkle shows both versions. This image is
from the Library of Congress. |
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1753.3 A MAP OF
THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA,
VIRGINIA, &C. This is a manuscript map from the
Library of Congress dated circa 1753. It has the
inscription "To the Honourable House of
Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania this map
is most humbly inscribed by their most obedient and
humble servant." This map is included only because
Pennsylvania is in the title. The map shows the area from
the Wabash River on the west to the Scioto River on the
east, and from Lake Huron on the north to the Green River
in Kentucky on the south and does not include the modern
state. While not an exact copy, there is similarity to
the western part of the "Traders map" ascribed
to John Patten, map 1752.4. |
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1753.4 AN EAST
PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, taken by George
Heap from the Jersey Shore, under the direction of
Nicholas Scull, Surveyor General of the Province of
Pennsylvania. This famous view of Philadelphia also
contains a map of the city's grid of streets titled A
PLAN OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. This map is reproduced
in Swift (2001) dated circa 1755. The image here is from
Jeffrey's A general topography of North America and
the West Indies published in 1768, from the
Library of Congress. Heap's original view did not contain
the map and was prepared circa 1752 and printed circa
1754. The view containing the map came later and M. P.
Snyder dates it 1756. Both versions are shown in Snyder,
Figures 17, 18. |
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1753.5
MAPPA GEOGRAPHICA AMERICAE SEPTENTRIONALIS ad emendatiora
exemplaria adhuc edita jussu Acad. Reg. Scient. et. Eleg.
Litt. descripta. Pars II. McCorkle (#775.4) says the date
of this four-sheet map of North America is conjectural,
and dates it 1775 and ascribes it to Leonhard Euler.
However, it is believed to come from Atlas
Geographique omnes orbis terrarum regiones... by
Leonhard Euler, published for the Royal Prussian Academy
of Sciences , Berlin 1753. The northeast sheet was
printed to be issued separately and so is included here.
It shows the region from Newfoundland to Florida and west
to include the Great Lakes. The colonies are given
elongated north-south boundaries as on Overton's 1754 map.
This image is from the Library of Congress where the date
1760? is used. |
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1754.1 A MAP OF
THE WESTERN PARTS OF THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA, J. Gibson
Sculpt. printed for R. Baldwin, in Pater Noster row for
the London Magazine 1754. This map is a portion of
a larger map by Jeffreys with the same title, see
Schwartz (1994). Virginia at this time claimed much of
western Pennsylvania as this map shows. It has a fancy
engraving on tobacco growing at lower right. A road is
shown from Williamsburg to Winchester to Gist's
Settlement to Shanopin's T. to Logstown on the Ohio to
Vinango on the Allegheny to Fr. Fort on Lake Erie. This
route was traveled by George Washington in his
negotiations with the French in 1753/54 prior to the
French and Indian War. The Fr. Fort was built to control
the portage route from the lake into the Ohio River basin
via the Allegheny River. These 'magazine maps' started
appearing in London publications in mid-century. This map
accompanied the article Some Extracts from the Journal
of Major George Washington, refering to Washington's
report to Governor Dinwiddie published in pamphlet in
Williamsburg early in 1754. Listed in Phillips
page 981. Longitude is given west from Ferro. Blank verso.
Scale: 1 inch = 100 miles. Size: 8 x 5.5 inches. |
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1754.2 A MAP OF
THE BRITISH AMERICAN PLANTATIONS, EXTENDING FROM BOSTON
IN NEW ENGLAND TO GEORGIA; INCLUDING ALL THE BACK
SETTLEMENTS IN THE RESPECTIVE PROVINCES, AS FAR AS THE
MISSISSIPI. By Eman:Bowen geogr: to His Majesty, Gent.
Mag: July 1754 Thos. Bowen sc. A map from the Gentleman's
Magazine covering the region described (McCorkle #754.1;
Sellers & van Ee #708). This map was possibly copied
from the Overton map below (or vice versa) as it has the
same elongated north-south boundaries for the colonies.
There were at least two different printings, this image
from the Library of Congress shows a hatched trail from
Lake Erie south to the "French Fort" where it
splits with trails west and following the Allegheny and
Ohio Rivers. Another copy of this same map does not have
these trails. Longitude west from Ferro, blank verso.
Scale: 1 inch = 100 miles. Size: 8.5 x 11 inches. |
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1754.3 AN
ACCURATE MAP OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA
BORDERING ON THE RIVER OHIO (McCorkle #754.2). An undated
map published by Henry Overton as a broadside with text.
It shows the northeast from Maine to Carolina and west to
include the Great Lakes. Despite the title, the Ohio is
not prominent. The colonies are given strange elongated
north-south boundaries with New Jersey extending into New
York and Pennsylvania; and Maryland extending into
western Pennsylvania. Philadelphia and Chester are named
along with several Indian villages along the Susquehanna.
The version shown here, from the Library of Congress, was
published circa 1755-60 with a different title: A MAP OF
THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA,
according to the notes and improvements of Mr. Bolton,
made in the original of Mr. Danville; with the history of
each colony in the margin. To His Sacred Majesty, King
George IId., the most heroic, truly great and best of
princes, this map is dedicated, by his most devoted
subject & servant, Henry Overton. R. W. Seale, sculp. |
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1754.4 AN
ACCURATE MAP OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA
BORDERING ON THE RIVER OHIO. This map is a reduced
version of the map of the same title above, and was
published by Overton in the Universal Magazine
of December 1754. The larger map has been truncated to
show the region between 35 and 45 degrees latitude. It
shows New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, and the Great
Lakes as far as Lake Michigan. The peculiar elongated
north-south boundaries are still there. Indian tribes,
rivers, mountain ranges and coastal islands are included.
Blank verso, longitude may be from Ferro as the 60 degree
line goes through Pennsylvania. (McCorkle #754.3; Sellers
& van Ee #707). Scale: 1 inch = 100 miles. Size: 8 x
10 inches. |
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1754.5 CAPTAIN
SNOW'S SCETCH OF THE COUNTRY BY HIMSELF, AND THE BEST
ACCOUNTS HE COULD RECEIVE FROM THE INDIAN TRADERS. 1754.
This is a manuscript map of western Pennsylvania with
parts of Maryland and Virginia. The Library of Congress,
from where this image comes, also has the manuscript
draft of this more polished map; both are illustrated in
Brown #20-21. Sellers & van Ee #1301-2. |
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1754.6 (Western
Pennsylvania) This is an untitled manuscript map prepared
by George Washington to illustrate his journey of 1753-54
to negotiate with the French. It is illustrated in Brown
#18 and Johnson (1974) and shows the river system around
Pittsburgh and the trace of Washington's travels. This
image is a facsimile from the Library of Congress, the
original is in the Public Record Office, London. There is
another manuscript map very similar to this illustrated
in Schwartz (1994) and said to be in a private collection.
Also, the British Library has a similar manuscript map as
listed by Docktor #25_A4.01. So apparently
Washington, or somebody, made more than one copy of this
sketch, see map #1755.30 also. |
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1754.7 MAP OF THE
WESTERN PARTS OF THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA, AS FAR AS THE
MISSISSIPI. This map appeared in The Journal of Major
George Washington..., published in Williamsburg in
1754 (without the map), and the same year in London by
Thomas Jeffreys (with the map). It depicts the region
from the Susquehanna River to the Mississippi, and from
the Great Lakes to North Carolina. In the 1750's
Virginians considered this entire region to be part of
Virginia. A line shows Washington's travels from
Williamsburg to Lake Erie. Most of the map is blank, but
the river systems are shown with some care. It is
illustrated in Brown #19 and in Johnson (1974). A modern
printing of Washington's journal is on line at Historic
Pittsburgh.
This image is a facsimile from a circa 1860's printing. |
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1754.8 PART OF
OHIO SHOWING THE FALLS. A manuscript map by Christopher
Gist illustrated in Hayes (Map 108) who gives it this
title. It is drawn on animal hide and dates circa 1754 as
the new Fort Duquesne is shown at the Forks of the Ohio.
The original is in the British National Archives. |
