One
of the earliest maps of Rhode
Island and Connecticut published in the United States.
- The image area measures 19.4
x 33.2 cm [7½" x 13"], and the map shows counties, townships, towns,
rivers, islands, and coastal
features.
- It locates the "Shaking Quakers," north of King Ferry in
Enfield,
Connecticut and labels the "Oblong ceeded to New York May 14th 1731."
- Among other named places and features are Long Island
Sound, Norwalk, Solitary Cove,
Glastonbury, Hebron, Westerly, Wallingford, Block Island, Greenwich,
Carver's Bridge,
Fairfield County, Housatonic River, Sharon, Newport, and the lighthouse off the south
end of Connanicut Island, also known as Beaver Tail Light.
- Longitude is measured from Philadelphia, and there is a
distance scale just inside the lower margin.
- The map was drawn
by Harding Harris, engraved by Samuel Hill, and
published by Isiah Thomas and Ebeneezer T. Andrews,
Massachusetts in Jedidiah Morse's The American Universal
Geography, Boston, 1796.
- Condition: This map is in very good
condition, with folds, as issued, and no
rips or tears. There is some minor wrinkling and spotting at
the
left edge. Please see the scans and feel free to ask any
questions.
- It is an original, authentic 1796 Jedidiah Morse map, not
a
reproduction or modern reprint, and it is fully guaranteed to be
genuine.
- Morse had compiled this country's first gazetteer and is
known to
historians as "The Father of American Geography."
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