An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741)

Title

An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741)

Subject

Rhode Island

Description

"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 and from thence southerly or the easterly shore round Bristol and from thence north easterly to assonet and from thence southerly to Seaconet Point and from thence easterly to Slocum's Harbour : and by the assistance of other plans and drafts is described the several islands ponds rivers and divisions of towns with the dividing line between the colonys of Connecticutt and Rhode Island as also the south line of the Massachusetts Bay"

To accompany "A Journal of the survey of the Narragansett Bay, and Parts Adjacent, taken in the months of May and June, A.D., 1741, by order of the honorable court of commissioners appointed by his Majesty King George the Second. Poetically described by one of the surveyors"

Creator

James Helme and William Chandler

Source

Leventhal Collection, The Boston Public Library
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:wd376620r

Also Available at the John Carter Brown Library as a manuscript copy of the Helme map of 1741 made in 1845 under the supervision of Henry N. Stevens, bookseller, and Robert Lemon, Public Record Office, London. https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/detail/JCBMAPS~1~1~3331~101574:An-exact-plan-of-the-sea-coast-of-t?sort=normalized_date%2Cfile_name%2Csource_author%2Csource_title&qvq=q:boundary%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bcolony%2Bof%2Brhode%2Bisland;sort:normalized_date%2Cfile_name%2Csource_author%2Csource_title;lc:JCBMAPS~1~1&mi=1&trs=2#

Date

1741

Contributor

Campbell

Files

An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... 1741%0A.jpg

Collection

Reference

James Helme and William Chandler, An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741), 1741

Cite As

James Helme and William Chandler, “An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741),” Mapping History, accessed May 5, 2024, http://maps.omeka.bucknell.edu/items/show/321.