<i>MAP / of the / SOUTHERN STATES / of / AMERICA, / Comprehending / MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, / TERRITORY Sth of the OHIO, NORTH / CAROLINA, TENNESSEE GOVERNMT, / SOUTH CAROLINA, & GEORGIA / By J. Russell</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1795
notes: label: Description
content: This map extends from 30°20' to 39°40' north latitude and from 75° to 91° longitude west from London. The text at bottom center reads “London Published as the Act directs Jan. 10, 1795 by H. D. Symonds N° 20 Paternoster Row.” The text at bottom right reads “Russell del. et sculp. Constitution R. Grays Inn La.”
label: Description
content: This map shows the southern United States shortly after the Revolution. The “COLONEL SIMMES” area in Ohio refers to John Cleves Symmes, a lawyer from New Jersey and member of the Continental Congress who bought over 312,000 acres of land from the federal government in 1788. “DONATION LANDS from the COMMONWEALTH of VIRGINIA” refers to that section of Ohio that Virginia reserved as payment to veterans of the revolutionary war. “OHIO COMPANY” refers to other lands reserved for veterans of the war. “SEVEN RANGES” refers to the first tract in the Ohio area that was surveyed in what became known as the Public Land Survey. Areas in what is now Illinois are labeled “NEW JERSEY COMPANY,” “WABASH COMPANY” and “ARMY LANDS.” The Appalachian, Cumberland, Cherokee, and Tryon mountain ranges are shown, as is the “Ouaquaphenogaw Swamp” (now the Okefenokee) in Georgia. The lands of the Choctaws and the Chickasaws are shown to the east of the Mississippi, as well as the Indian settlement of Catabaw on the border between North and South Carolina.
label: Description
content: John Russell (fl. 1733-1795) was a British engraver and draughtsman who worked for several cartographers. Henry Delahoy Symonds was a publisher in London. Russell and Symonds brought out a map of the middle states in 1794 and one of the northern states in 1795.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ronald V. Tooley, <i>Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers</i> (Hertfordshire, 1979).
label: Description
content: Ronald V. Tooley, <i>The Mapping of America</i> (London, 1985).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.317821
label: catalog number
content: 317821
label: accession number
content: 231759
objectType: label: Object Name
content: map
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 41.275 cm x 53.975 cm