Herman Bőÿe (1792–1830), cartographer and engineer, was a native of Rudkøbing, Denmark, and served in the Danish military as a corporal, 1813–14. In 1816 he moved to the United States, arriving at Plymouth, Massachusetts, but settling by 1818 in Richmond, where he worked in the office of the clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates. Bőÿe assisted John Wood in surveying and drafting maps of Virginia’s counties. After Wood’s death in 1822, Governor Thomas Mann Randolph hired Bőÿe to complete the series of individual county maps and produce one of the entire state. To aid him in this work, TJ lent Bőÿe “a fine Borda’s Circle of reflection” and his “best telescope.” After drafting the state map, Bőÿe oversaw its engraving by Henry S. Tanner in Philadelphia, 1825–26. It was first published in the latter year as A Map of the State of Virginia Constructed in conformity to law, from the late surveys authorized by the Legislature and other original and authentic Documents. The state also contracted with Bőÿe to produce a reduced version in 1827. He declared his intention to become a naturalized United States citizen in Philadelphia in 1825. Beginning three years later Bőÿe was resident engineer working in Maryland on construction of the Monocacy Aqueduct of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, in which capacity he fell ill and died (DVB description begins John T. Kneebone, Sara B. Bearss, and others, eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography, 1998– , 3 vols. description ends ; CSmH: Bőÿe Papers [microfilm in Vi]; DNA: RG 21, LRAEDP; CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers … Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , 10:504, 524, 531, 547–8, 555–6, 562–3; TJ to William Short, 3 Jan. 1826; Annual Report of the President and Directors of The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company 1 [1829]: li; Richmond City Hustings Court Will Book, 5:225–6, 310–2, 508–9).