Content: Appears in Thomas Jefferys' American atlas.
Content: Described in: Fry & Jefferson map of Virginia and Maryland : facsimiles of the 1754 and 1794 printings. 1966. p. [21].
Content: Includes distance chart and ill.
Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Outline color.
Content: Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet.
Content: Relief shown pictorially.
Content: Sheets numbered on verso: 21 -- 22.
Version Identification: This version differs from similar versions, because of omission of Jefferys' name and address from the imprint.
Citation/Reference: Variant of Cumming 449
Statement Of Responsibility: "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk, Earl of Halifax ... This map is most humbly inscribed ... by ... Tho's Jefferys. "
Statement Of Responsibility: drawn by Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson in 1775.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand col. ; 80 x 122 cm., sheets 53 x 127 cm.
NYPL copy mounted on muslin.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 23617302
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14905752
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 07de3620-c52b-012f-0035-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1775

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1775. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07de3620-c52b-012f-0035-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1775). A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07de3620-c52b-012f-0035-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland : with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/07de3620-c52b-012f-0035-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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