Administrative and political divisions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A chorographical map of the Province of New-York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and townships : exhibiting likewise all the private grants of land made and located in that Province, 1779
Item
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-154
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.
Dates:
1779
A map of the Province of New-York : reduc'd from the large drawing of that province, compiled from actual surveys by order of His Excellency William Tryon, Esqr. Captain General & Governor of the same, 1776
Item
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-156
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.
Dates:
1776
A topographical map of the Province of New Hampshire, 1784
Item
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-092
Description
This rare map of New Hampshire was prepared from surveys by Samuel Holland - famed engineer who entered British service during the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The map depicts New Hampshire in great detail, illustrating rivers, streams, lakes, elevations, township boundaries, roads, and structures. Two great arcs delineate the boundary of a parcel known as "Mason's Curve." The parcel, owned by John Mason (1586-1635), was originally located between the Merrimack and Kennebeck Rivers,...
Dates:
1784
Province de New-Jersey divisée en est et ouest nomée vulgairement les Jerseys, 1782
Item — Drawer 122 : L : 5, Section: 3
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-116
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains approximately 300 rare printed maps, unique manuscript maps, and published texts collected by Richard H. Brown, which pertain to the American Revolutionary War era.
Dates:
1782
The province of New Jersey, divided into east and west, commonly called the Jerseys, 1777
Item
Identifier: 2020-IL-001-081
Description
Bernard Ratzer, a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, prepared a survey of New Jersey in 1769 to assist the Boundary Commission in settling a long standing boundary dispute between the states of New York and New Jersey. London mapmaker William Faden published Ratzer's survey as a finished map in 1777 in his North American Atlas. Published during the American Revolution, the map depicts the area known to George Washington before the Battle of Monmouth, and shows the fortification at Valley...
Dates:
1777
