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A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Title: 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.
Author: Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.
Publication: London, Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, [1755]

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Description

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

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

Maryland > Maps > Early works to 1800
Virginia > Maps > Early works to 1800
Middle Atlantic States > Maps > Early works to 1800

Note

Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet.
"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."
Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye 1st. 1755." and ill.

Indexed In (note)

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps

Call Number

Map Div. 01-5084

LCCN

74693089

OCLC

5402275

Author

Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754.

Title

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

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

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

Indexed In:

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

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Added Author

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Ford Collection.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 01-5084

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