A plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia : Survey'd by N.Scull and G.Heap /
Faden, William,1750?-1836
Faden, William,1750?-1836
Scull Nicolas
Heap George
London : William Faden,
12th March 1777.
No relief shown.
Plan of Philadelphia and environs.
Rivers with hachures ; roads. Marshes shown pictorially.
North to the top left-hand corner.
Drawn by George Heap, a surveyor and city coroner of Philadelphia, and Nicolas Scull, Surveyor General of the Province of Pennsylvania and a friend to Franklin, this map shows streams, roads, and names of the landowners in the vicinity of Philadelphia. The bottom of the map contains an illustration of the State-House or Independence Hall, home of the Federal Convention of 1787.
Scale of miles 2 miles=7.6 cm, ca 1:42350.
Mention of publication outside the map frame :"London Publish'd according to Act of Parl.t [Parliament] March 12th.1777 by W.[William]Faden Successor to the late Mr Jefferys Geographer to the King Charing Cross".
Another edition without the table of distances, in Augsburg : Matthias Albrecht Lotter, 1777.
Inset : "Elevation of the state house".
Inset : "A table of distances of the most remarkable places on this plan beginning at the Court house".
Div.4 portfolio 136 Hydrographic office : city and area of Philadelphia