COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Accession Number:
30084
File Name:
30084
Call number:
Cabinet Cb722 / 1.2
Map title:
A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England in America ... to the Year. 17[33]
Place of Publication:
Boston
Publisher:
Printed for & Sold by Wm. Price at ye Kings Head & Looking Glass, in Cornhill ...
Publication date:
17[33]
Map size height:
43.8 cm.
Map size width:
60.3 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
Plan of Boston with revisions to the year 1733 including locations of churches and other municipal buildings. Also includes a list of the great fires of Boston and dates of smallpox epidemics. Cartographic elements include compass rose, scale, location of roads, wharves, commons, dams, watchtowers, and shipyards. Decorative cartouche includes the Belcher coat of arms, as well as the gods Neptune with trident and Mercury with caduceus and winged helmet. Decorative elements include ships.
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1947, p. 5-11; Stokes and Haskell, American Historical Prints, p. 20; Wheat & Brun, Maps & charts, no. 231; http://www.efsmaps.… (Mar. 2005)
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
The original creator of this map was Captain John Bonner, a renowned sea captain, pilot, and draftsman of several maps and charts. This plan was his only published map. When it was first published in 1722, it was the earliest surviving plan of Boston and the first engraved plan of any American city printed in what is present-day United States.When Bonner died in 1726, the ownership of the copper-plate went to William Price who was responsible for the revisions of the plate until the map's final printing in 1769.
Normalized date:
1733
Creator:
Francis Dewing