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Sir David William Smith, "Purchases from the Indians in 1787"
Sir David William Smith, "Purchases from the Indians in 1787", 1787
Full title: "Purchases from the Indians in 1787, the Mohawks land and boundary of the lands of the Mississauga Indians"
The "Toronto Purchase" of…
Tags: British, Canada, eighteenth century, Indigenous, Ontario, Toronto
Phillipe Buache, Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach (1754)
Phillipe Buache, Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach (1754), 1753-55
Full title: Reduction de la Carte Tracée par le Sauvage Ochagach et autres, laquelle a donne lieu aux Decouvertes de Officiers Francois representées…
Tags: eighteenth century, French America, Indigenous, western interior
Unknown, "Plan of part of the western front" (1778?)
Unknown, "Plan of part of the western front" (1778?), 1778? (earlier?)
Shows northern Pennsylvania and western New York, detailed mapping showing numerous forts, Indian villages, and trails, is restricted to the…
Tags: eighteenth century, New York, Pennsylvania, Susquehanna
RyanHeuser
Franco Moretti
Erik Steiner, The Emotions of London
RyanHeuser
Franco Moretti
Erik Steiner, The Emotions of London, 2016
Digital Humanities textual analysis of emotions in literature set in London, 1700-1900
Tags: eighteenth century, literary map, London, nineteenth century
James Helme and William Chandler, An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741)
James Helme and William Chandler, An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741), 1741
"An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River eastwards to Point Judith and from thence northwards to the town of Providence…
Tags: coastal, eighteenth century, Rhode Island
Edward Patteson, England, Wales Roman, modern.
Edward Patteson, England, Wales Roman, modern., 1804
A general and classical atlas: accompanied with a concise treatise on the principles of geography; and with a few practical remarks on the application…
Tags: eighteenth century, England, Roman, Scotland, transportation, Wales
Thomas Jefferys, The Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire. (Southern section)
Thomas Jefferys, The Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire. (Southern section), 1776
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England, containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Conecticut And…
Charles Morris, A Plan of the town of St. Andrew’s (1785)
Charles Morris, A Plan of the town of St. Andrew’s (1785), 1785
"Model town" plan for the Loyalist settlement of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick.
"A PLAN of the TOWN of St ANDREWS Situated at the Head of…
Tags: eighteenth century, empire, Loyalists, New Brunswick
John Stockdale & Jedidiah Morse
, A Map of the Northern and Middle States (1794)
John Stockdale & Jedidiah Morse
, A Map of the Northern and Middle States (1794), 1794
40x43 cm. Notable for the land grants in the Ohio district following the Revolution, and the incursions on British Canada by the "Province of Main."
Robert Aitken, A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp
Robert Aitken, A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp, Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, 1755
Engrav'd for the Pennsylva. magazine v. 1, 1775, p. 29.
Relief shown pictorially.
Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England, Revolutionary War
William Price
John Bonner, A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall buildings & new streets to the year 1743
William Price
John Bonner, A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall buildings & new streets to the year 1743, 1743
A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall buildings & new streets to the year 1743
Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England
A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twenty five miles south of Boston : including an accurate draft of the harbour and town
A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twenty five miles south of Boston : including an accurate draft of the harbour and town, 1775?
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes "References to the harbour and environs of Boston," reflecting points of general interest and military events…
Tags: Boston, eighteenth century, New England, Revolutionary War
Cotton Mather, An Exact Mapp of New England and New York (1702)
Cotton Mather, An Exact Mapp of New England and New York (1702), Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, 1702 (based on 1685 map)
Recognized as the first 18th century map of New England, this map was used to illustrate Cotton Mather's famous history of the Bay Colony, "Magnalia…
Thomas Jefferys and John Green, A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations (1774)
Thomas Jefferys and John Green, A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire, with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island, divided into counties and townships : the whole composed from actual surveys and its situation adjusted by astronomical observations (1774), Boston Public Library, 1777, 1755
This large, detailed map of New England was compiled by Braddock Mead (alias John Green), and first published by Thomas Jefferys in 1755. Green was an…