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Cabinet Cd753 /1.2

A Map of the most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

London

Thos. Jefferys Geographer to His Royal Highness ... at the Corner of St. Martins Land, Charing Cross

[ca. 1755]

38.9 cm.

61.7 cm.

engraving

Lower right part of Fry and Jefferson's 4-sheet map of Virginia and surroundings. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude and longitude and names of rivers. Decorative cartouche at lower right shows a harbor scene with merchants (one smoking a tobacco pipe) on a wharf with ships and barrels (one full of tobacco leaves), with black [slaves] carrying a drink, rolling a barrel, making a barrel, and working on a boat.

Fry and Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson's father) were appointed to to establish the boundaries of the "Northern Neck" of Virginia, a proprietary grant of over 5 million acres; this survey was completed in 1747. In 1749 they were appointed to extend the southern boundary of Virginia with North Carolina. Their map was completed in 1751, but not published until 1754. This map is the second edition of the 1754 map which corrected many of the errors of the first edition (the first to represent the Appalachian Mountains running in the correct direction). Both the English and the French used the map in the French and Indian War and in the American Revolution.

Schwartz, S. I. Mapping of America, p.157-159; Imago Mundi, XXI, 86, no. 4; Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, no. 449; Phillips, P.L. Virginia cartography, p. 48

1755

Peter Jefferson

Joshua Fry