Carte du Canada et des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique Septentrionale
Covers Canada east of Lake Superior and south of James Bay; covers U.S. north of Albemarle Bay (N.C.). Relief shown pictorially. Third state. Meridians numbered eastward from unspecified prime (Montréal at 305⁰E). Believed to be the earlist map to use the name United States of America (in any language). Watermarked (unclear wording with pointed cross at center of embellished circle with pendant cross). Available...
Contributor:
Robert De Vaugondy, Gilles - Fortin, J. (Jean)
Carte du théatre de la guerre actuel entre les Anglais et les Treize Colonies Unies de l'Amerique Septentrionale,
Scale ca. 1:1,400,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Three copies. Copy 1 has some states outlined in faint brown and pink. Copy 2 has states outlined in faint pink and green. Copy 3 has yellow border and has states outlined in pink, green, and purple. Covers the area from Lake Nipissin to lower Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie. Shows states, some...
Part of Long Island; and the coast eastward to the shoals of Nantucket.
Scale ca. 1:600,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Has watermarks. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes view of "Sancoty Head S.S.W. 10 miles distant." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 824 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650/1; 650/2
Contributor:
Knight, John
Date:1778
Map
A Plan of the late Province of Main as far as Kennebeck River.
Scale ca. 1:200,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Margin deteriorated and a section of the upper left corner missing. In 2 sections, mounted on cloth backing. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows internal boundaries. Accompanied by positive photocopy of verso, taken prior to mounting, showing "Backers Town." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 836 Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
Date:1778
Map
Plan de Boston avec les sondes et les directions pour la navigation. Traduit de l'anglais.
Scale ca. 1:28,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Based on A Chart of the harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks, and other directions. [1777] From the author's Pilote américain septentrional. 1778-79. v. 1. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 956 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
Contributor:
Le Rouge, Georges-Louis
Date:1778
Map
Plan d'une partie de la rade de Boston pour faire connaitre le dispositif de ses deffenses.
Scale ca. 1:42,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. "Legende" includes positions of vessels of French fleet, by name and commander. Accompanied by: Partie extraite d'un Memoire général sur Boston. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 938 Vault AACR2: 440; 651/1; 650/2
Date:1778
Map
Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket.
Scale ca. 1:100,000. Title on verso: Nantucket Shoals and Buzzards's Bay by Lieutt. Knight, 1778. Soundings shown in fathoms. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over an undecipherable figure, all of which are over the letters GR and J. Whatman. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 984 Available also through the Library of Congress Web...
Contributor:
Faden, William - Page, Thomas Hyde - Montrésor, John
Date:1778
Map
Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th. of June 1775.
Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially. From James Murray's Impartial history of the present war in America. v. 1. p. 431. Includes historical note on fires and indexes to wards and points of interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 936 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 650/1;...
Contributor:
Robson, T.
Date:1778
Map
A Temporary project for a star redout [sic] to contain 150 men.
Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. "No. 53." On verso, partly illegible and in a different hand: Boston ... part of the ... project for the war ... Drawing of a fortification on the road to Roxbury near Boston Neck, with list of proposed guns. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America,...
Date:1778
Map
Attacks upon Rhode Island, Augt. 1778.
Scale ca. 1:120,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Shows all of Narragansett Bay. Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north to the right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1015 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2
Date:1778
Map
Carte des positions occupeés par les trouppes Américaines apres leur retraite de Rhode Island le 30 Aout 1778
Relief shown by hachures. Some place names in English. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. Includes descriptive index to defenses. On label affixed to verso of backing: No. 132. Carte des positions occupeés par les trouppes Américaines le 30 Aoust 1778. Gift; Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenfest; Jan. 2000 Available also through the Library...
Contributor:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier - Capitaine Du Chesnoy, Michel
