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Additional authors

1. Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.
2. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
3. Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Description

1. 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 80 x 122 cm., sheets 53 x 127 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subject

1. Middle Atlantic States > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. Virginia > Maps > Early works to 1800
3. Maryland > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 00-346

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk, Earl of Halifax ... This map is most humbly inscribed ... by ... Tho's Jefferys. "
3. This version differs from similar versions, because of omission of Jefferys' name and address from the imprint.
4. Appears in Thomas Jefferys' American atlas.
5. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet.
6. Outline color.
7. Described in: Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland : facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21].
8. Includes distance chart and ill.
9. Sheets numbered on verso: 21 -- 22.

Indexed in (note)

1. Variant of Cumming

Author

1. Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.

Title

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 / drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775.

Imprint

1. London : Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street, [1775]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:650,000] (W 84⁰00ʹ--W 72⁰50ʹ/N 40⁰15ʹ--N 35⁰45ʹ)

Indexed in:

1. Variant of Cumming 449

Local note

1. NYPL copy mounted on muslin.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.
2. Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.
3. Jefferys, Thomas, -1771. American atlas.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 00-346 [Oversize - Filed with United States Oversize]