Land, Maps, and Natural Resources

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BMC 53--Massachusetts and Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine, circa 1760
Map of Massachusetts and Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine. Notes "line of scouts and lodgements posted by Governor Pownall." Marks sites of numerous forts throughout the provinces, including Fort Halifax on the Kennebec River. Depicts area from Lake Champlain and Fort William Henry to Penobscot Bay in Maine. Cartographer is unknown and map is undated. Thomas Pownall was Governor of Massachusetts 1757-1760.
1760

BMC 58--Carta Della Nuova Inghilterra Nuova Iork, e Pensilvania; 1763
Map of New England and Mid-Atlantic region prior to the American Revolution. In Delaware only Wilmington and New Castle are shown. Italian edition of Bellin's 1757 map. Appears in Masi's "Il Gazzettiere Americano." Published in Livorno, Italy, 1763.
1763

BMC 60--Nouvelle France, Nova Anglia, Nova Scotia, and Virginia, 1684
Manuscript map by William Hack dated 1684 and covers the east coast from Virginia to Nova Scotia. 'Pennsilvania' is prominently marked on the Delmarva Peninsula. Includes the Great Lakes, described as “the Grand Lake of the Sweet Sea.”
1684


BMC 82--The Harbour of Anapolis Royal, circa 1747

Forms part of series of maps published by Emanuel Bowen circa 1747 as “Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbours belonging to the English, French, and Spaniards, in America and West Indies.”
1747

BMC 79A--Plan de la Ville de Quebec, circa 1764
Plan of the city of Quebec circa 1764. Cartographer is unknown but the map is based upon Jacques Bellin's map of the same period.
1764