File: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 1775. NYPL976283.tiff

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Description 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 1775.; Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases / Charts and maps
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Includes distance chart by J. Dalrymple and ill. ''Note 2.'') Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 64. ''Note 3.'') National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. ''Note 4.'') Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. ''Note 5.'') Relief shown pictorially. ''Note 6.'') To the Right Honourable George Dunk, Earl of Halifax, First Lord Commissioner, and to the Rest of the Right Honourable and Honourable Commissioners, for Trade and Plantations. This map is most humbly inscribed to their Lordships. By their Lordships Most Obedient and most devoted humble servt. Thos. Jefferys. ''Note 7.'') Described in: Fry and Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland : facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21]
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Map Div. 97-6283 [LHS 64, N. sheet only]
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Cumming, W.P. Southeast in early maps, 449
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institution QS:P195,Q219555
Author Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794 -- Publisher ;Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771 -- Engraver
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Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
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12-7-2007; updated 3-25-2011
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976283
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