COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
02755
File Name:
02755-1
Call number:
D747 C688h (copy 1)
Map title:
A Map of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of the Lakes near ...
Place of Publication:
[London]
Publisher:
[T. Osborne]
Publication date:
[1747]
Map size height:
18.8 cm. (platemark)
Map size width:
23.4 cm. (platemark)
Item description:
fold-out engraved map: frontispiece
Geographical description:
Map of the Great Lakes and northern New York. Includes the Hudson and Saint Lawrence Rivers and Maryland. Cartographic elements include compass rose, degrees of latitude and longitude, scale, names of bodies of water, locations of mountain ranges and forts, and locations of native American tribes. Dotted lines show where boats had to be carried or portaged.
Source author:
Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776
Source title:
[History of the Five Indian Nations] The history of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, which are dependent on the province of New-York in America, and are the barrier between the English and French in that part of the world.
Source place:
London : Printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn., MDCCXLVII
Geographic Area:
North America
Historical notes:
The Five Nations tribes, also known as the Iroquois Confederacy, included the old Five Nations of New York, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca peoples. The sixth nation was the Tuscaroras of North Carolina.Colden was acting Governor of New York twice and Governor of New York from 1769 to 1771. He was also the first colonial representative to the Iroquois Confederacy.
Normalized date:
1747
A Map of the Country of the Five Nations, belonging to the Province of New York; and of th...
