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Fry, Joshua; Jefferson, Peter; Robert Sayer & Thomas Jefferys
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English: A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1775Hand coloured map on two sheets. Scale: [ca.1:500 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Meridians of London, Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Contents Note: Cartouche depicting tobacco trade. The two sheets do not agree in longitude, one perhaps a later impression. Table of distances between places from Dalrymple's journal. References to mapping of certain areas by the following: William Churton; Daniel Weldon; Mr Gist; Honble Willm Byrd; ' Willm Dandridge; Mr Willm Mayo; Mr Alexander Irvine; Richard Fitzwilliams. From: Faden; North American Atlas, 1777 (copy at PBD8188).
Cartouche from a map showing the plantations of Maryland and Virginia, by Joshua fry and Peter Jefferson, published 1775
Date 1775; 1754
Dimensions Overall sheet dimensions: 94 cm x 129 cm
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540559
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GGCC: 246:3
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previous number: G246:3/6A-B
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Charts and maps

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