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1To Thomas Jefferson from William Short, 4 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)

The map of Virginia which is here in the hands of the engraver, I have seen. It seems to me so far well executed, & will give satisfaction. It will exhibit a fine view of the University & also of Richmond.

2To Thomas Jefferson from Herman Boye, 11 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)

I regret exceedingly that you should have had the smallest degree of trouble on account of their not been returned before this time. It was my intention, as soon as I had completed the Map of Virginia, to have returned them in person, or to have delivered them to Col

3From Thomas Jefferson to William Short, 3 January 1826 (Jefferson Papers)

to change the direction of one of your daily walks. a mr Boyé, a Danish Mathematician was engaged in a survey to make a map of Virginia. I lent him a fine Borda’s Circle of reflection 2. or 3. years ago and my best telescope. he has ceased to have occasion for them a year or two. he is now in Philada attending... ...one engaged in engraving the map of Virginia. pardon this trouble. my health...

4To Thomas Jefferson from Hugh Paul Taylor, 23 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)

...allow me the pleasure and the honour of using them for publication: for which I would feel myself extremely obliged and honord by you—I would embody them with the collection of information proposed to be appended to the New Map of Virginia: agreeable to the enclosed interrogataries: as M

5To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Briggs, 24 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)

Permit me to introduce to thee my young friend Herman Boye. He is by birth a Dane, very modest and unassuming, yet possessing a handsome stock of science. He has been appointed to complete the map of Virginia left unfinished by Wood, and I think the appointment a good one. I need not say more, as he will present himself to thy observation.

6To James Madison from Thomas Ritchie, 7 August 1822 (Madison Papers)

At all events, should Mr. Spafford eventually determine to undertake the work, he would have ⟨to⟩ wait till the new Map of Virginia is perfected. The death of John Wood has delayed it—and no ⟨one?⟩ has yet been appointed to take his place. It is probable that the whole Map will not be engraved, before the close of the...

7From James Madison to Horatio Gates Spafford, 16 April 1822 (Madison Papers)

...Assembly, 27 Feb. 1816, requiring “an accurate chart of each county and a general map of the Territory of this Commonwealth.” After Wood’s death, his work was completed by Herman Böyë, a Richmond engineer; the map of Virginia was published in 1826 (Walter W. Ristow, “Maps,”

8Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Early Career (the so-called “Autobiography”), [6 January–29 July 1821], with editorial note … (Jefferson Papers)

Map of Virginia which had ever been made,

9Thomas Jefferson’s Deposition in Fry v. Bell, 9 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)

boundary line in 1749, and the two collaborated on a 1751 map of Virginia that bears their names. Lieutenant Governor

10Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)

Map of Virginia. With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion

11Richard Young to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1820 (Jefferson Papers)