1755
A New and Accurate Map of North America
John Huske; Thomas Kitchin sculpt.
1755
A New and Accurate Map of North America
John Huske; Thomas Kitchin sculpt.
Period original
What this plate depicts
The title states the job: to correct “the errors of all preceding British, French and Dutch maps respecting the rights of Great Britain, France & Spain, & the limits of each of His Majesty’s provinces.” Coverage runs from Newfoundland toward Florida, with a Hudson Bay inset. Pennsylvania’s drawn limits are part of the argument. This plate is a dispute about European rights, drawn as geography.
- Source
- Library of Congress, from Huske’s The Present State of North America (also issued 1760).
- License
- Public domain.
Compare with the next
Record this sheet first. Then set it beside another plate. Nothing is redrawn to make them agree.
Chapters where this plate appears
- 02Chronological progressionRead the originals in date order. Each plate is evidence of what was drawable that year.
- 03Territorial changesEuropean rights, a treaty map, then a later schematic of what the treaty moved.
- 05Colonial jurisdictionsBritish, French, and Spanish limits as London printed them in 1755.