Research Catalog

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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 79 x 121 cm., sheets 52 x 124 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

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

Call number

1. Map Div. 01-5084

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet.
3. "To the Right Honourable George Dunk, Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner, and to the Rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable Commissioners, for Trade and Plantations. This map is most humbly inscribed to their Lordships. By their Lordships Most Obedient & most devoted humble servt. Thos. Jefferys."
4. Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye 1st. 1755." and ill.

Indexed in (note)

1. Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps

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 1751.

Imprint

1. London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, [1755]

Cartographic data

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

Indexed in:

1. Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, 281

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

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

LCCN

1. 74693089

Research call number

1. Map Div. 01-5084