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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 : Published ... by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May 1794.

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Description

1 map : hand col.; 78 x 121 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 677a.
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Subjects

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

Note

Relief shown pictorially.
Prime meridians: Philadelphia, London and Curratuck Inlet.
"Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No.53 in Fleet Street, Lomdon."
Described in: Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland ; facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21]
Includes dedication by Thos. Jefferys and distance chart.

Indexed In (note)

Variant of Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps

Call Number

Map Div. 97-6472

OCLC

50170756

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 : Published ... by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53, Fleet Street, 12th May 1794.

Cartographic Data

Scale [ca. 1:650,000] (W 83⁰00ʹ--W 74⁰00ʹ/N 40⁰15ʹ--N 35⁰45ʹ).

Indexed In:

Variant of Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, no. 449.

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Added Author

Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757.

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.

Laurie & Whittle.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 97-6472 [LHS 677a; oversize]

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