1Notes on the History of North America, [December 1786] (Hamilton Papers)
Hondius Map of Virginia and Florida.
2Pennsylvania Assembly Committee: Report on the Western Bounds, 7 March 1754 (Franklin Papers)
...surveyor, in Albemarle Co., Va., sat in the House of Burgesses, and was commissioner to the Logstown Indian Conference of 1752. With Peter Jefferson he prepared, 1751, one of the earliest and most useful maps of Virginia. Appointed to command the Virginia forces moving against the French in the spring of 1754, he died in camp at Wills Creek, May 31, and was succeeded in command by George...
3From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 28 April 1754 (Franklin Papers)
2 Fry and Jefferson’s Maps of Virginia, Maryland &c.
4[May 1770] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid £1 10s. to Col. John Henry (d. 1773), father of Patrick Henry, for a copy of his map of Virginia which had been published the previous February by Thomas Jefferys of London.
5[Diary entry: 30 May 1770] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid £1 10s. to Col. John Henry (d. 1773), father of Patrick Henry, for a copy of his map of Virginia which had been published the previous February by Thomas Jefferys of London.
6Cash Accounts, May 1770 (Washington Papers)
By Colo. Henry for a Map of VirginiaCol. John Henry’s map of Virginia was published by Thomas Jefferys in London in February 1770.
7From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 10 April 1799 (Washington Papers)
The alterations I propose, are as follow—1st to make Hobbshole, instead of the Bolling Green, the 8th Rendezvous (refering to the plan you sent me)—because, as you will perceive by the Map of Virginia, Caroline County is the uppermost in
8To George Washington from Christopher Colles, 17 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have lately seen Capn Hutchins’s map of Virginia, & observe that the River Ohio is navigable for large vessels from Fort Pitt to its confluence with the Mississipi, & from thence to the Ocean, except a small distance of 2 or 3 miles where it is...
9From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 26 September 1780 (Madison Papers)
...American Philosophical Society. As late as 1782, Jefferson was still waiting for Smith to fulfill his promise to send a copy of what was probably Nicholas, John, and Virginia Ferrar’s “Faithfull Map of Virginia in America,” dating from 1651. Although Smith was a “difficult” man with whom to deal, his unreliability in this instance may have been occasioned by his move, shortly after JM saw...
10From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 18 March 1782 (Madison Papers)
The Library Company of Philadelphia owned a copy of the pamphlet, cited in n. 3, in which appears a reproduction of the “Faithfull Map of Virginia in America,” drawn by Virginia Ferrar (Farrar) in 1651. This chart assures its users that the “happy shore” of “The Sea of China and the Indies” may be “discovered to the exceeding benefit of Great... ...see Coolie Verner, “The First Maps of Virginia,...