COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
C-6513
File Name:
C-6513-000
Call number:
Shelf En763 (2) CrT
Map title:
To the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Holdernesse, this map of the County of Cornwall, in the island of Jamaica (laid down from the papers, and under the direction of Henry Moore Esqr. His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor, and Commander in Chief of that Island, in the years 1756, -57, -58, -59, -60, & 61 ; & from a great number of actual surveys performed by the publishers) is humbly inscribed by ... Thos. Craskell engineer, Jas. Simpson surveyor
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
Dal. Fournier
Publication date:
1763
Map size height:
99 cm.
Map size width:
124 cm.
Item description:
Engraved map, color, dissected and mounted, folded in slipcase
Geographical description:
Map of the county of Cornwall on the island of Jamaica. Includes sugar and other plantations, mills, roads, etc. indicated. Decorative cartouche includes scene with wind-powered sugar mill, slave, planter, house. Scale has ornate architectural cartouche.
References:
Cundall, Jamaica, no. 21e (p. 67)
Geographic Area:
Caribbean
Historical notes:
Thomas Craskell (chief engineer on the island) and James Simpson (and chief surveyor) were engaged to conduct the first detailed survey of the Island of Jamaica which was conducted from 1756 to 1761.
Normalized date:
1763
LC bibliographic number:
b54056913
Creator:
Craskell, Thomas
Creator:
Fournier, Daniel
To the Right Honorable Robert Earl of Holdernesse, this map of the County of Cornwall, in ...
