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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 1775.
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, [1775]

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Description

1 map on 2 sheets : hand col.; 79 x 121 cm., sheets 79 x 61 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 64.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative Title

Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US238.1.10

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."
Described in: Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland : facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21]
Includes distance chart by J. Dalrymple and ill.

Indexed In (note)

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps

Call Number

Map Div. 01-5085

LCCN

74693099

OCLC

5402281

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 1775.

Imprint

London : Printed for Robt. Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, & Thos. Jefferys at the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross, [1775]

Cartographic Data

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

Indexed In:

Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, 449

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Added Author

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 01-5085

Map Div. 97-6283 [LHS 64, N. sheet only]

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