File:1756 Lotter Map of Eastern Pennsylvania, & New Jersey cropped from Geographicus-1756.jpg
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 English: 4:3 ratio cropped version of full German language Lotter Map[dead link] of the center colonies of England dated concurrent with the French and Indian War (1756-1763) when emigration by German settlers was quite fashionable. (The write up of the original map LINKED HERE should be read.) The notes here are very different and period specific to geography and perceptions. • While the N-S dimensions of the projection are squashed, the Pennsylvania details are extremely revealing of the mindset of the day about the ways for settlers to travel west from in the province of Virginia, province of Maryland, and province of Pennsylvania. Of particular interest: • The Susquehanna Valley in and around the Maryland line north from both York, PA and Lancaster, PA on either side of the Susquehanna upto the Blue Mountain Ridge looks extremely appealing relative to the rest of the work's territories. This was already transistioning into the idealic landscapes of today's Pennsylvania Dutch territories. • The Wyoming Valley (which at that time had only a few recent pioneers) is very small in comparison to actual lands. At the time the Susquehanna Valley above Blue Mountain Ridge had only recently been sold out from under the bitter Delaware peoples by their Iroquois masters and was sparsely populated and still largely unknown. (This cavalier treatment was one reason the Delaware largely supported the French in the conflict against the British and their Iroquois allies.) • The map locates about six Indian towns and perhaps one settlement north of the Susquehanna Gap. The West Branch Susquehanna country is very distorted as it is far more convoluted. • The Lehigh Valley, is under sized and disproportionately absent from the mountains through which its upper half traverses west of the Pocono Mountains along the Delaware River, which are also missing on the map, as is its real relation to the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valleys. The Lower Lehigh region, where other Germans are known to have settled is however also portrayed as inviting and attractive. This may be why the mountains beyond the Blue Mountain escarpment and the Poconos was omitted. • The valley of the Schuylkill River clearly leads inland albeit on a more northerly course than actual, but it and the branches of the stream to the west later followed by the Union Canal led the eyes west from Philadelphia even as the real ones led turnpikes, canals, and railroads in later eras before motor cars. • The distortions of the Chesapeake Bay, Susquehanna, and Potomac have to be deliberate to make the lands to the interior seem far more accessible and inviting. • Also of geographical interest is the density of the western ascents towards the gaps of the Allegheny and the Allegheny Plateau country--the map correctly telegraphing that the country would support farming. |
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| Source | Own work cropped from high resolution version of File:1756 Lotter Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey ^ New York - Geographicus - PensylvaniaNovaJersey-lotter-1756.jpg |
| Author | Fabartus |
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- 1750s maps of Pennsylvania
- 1750s maps of New Jersey
- 1750s maps of Maryland
- 1750s maps of Virginia
- Maps by Tobias Conrad Lotter
- Latin-language maps
- Maps of the Susquehanna River
- Maps of the Delaware River
- Maps of the Schuylkill River
- German-language maps of the United States
- Delaware River in the 18th century
- Susquehanna River in the 18th century
- Multilingual maps
- Kittanning Member, Allegheny Formation
- Kittanning (village)
- Juniata River