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Mapping the Iroquois and the Disputed Ohio Valley in 1755. A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (Philadelphia, 1755) was drawn by Lewis Evans and printed from a copper plate engraved by James Turner.
The maps in the Map Collections materials were either published prior to 1922, produced by the United States government, or both (see catalogue records that accompany each map for information regarding date of publication and source).
That document records that Washington acquired 9,744 acres on the Ohio River and owned another 23,341 acres on the Great Kanhawa, with an additional 234 acres in Pennsylvania near Great Meadows, 3,051 acres in the northwestern territory, and 5,000 acres in Kentucky.
The French and Indian War, the North American phase of the larger Seven Years' War, began after a series of incidents in the upper Ohio River valley, which the French and British governments both claimed as their territory.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century.
An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on the river Ohio. Created / Published. [London : s.n., 1754] Headings. - United States--Maps--Early works to 1800. Notes. - Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. - Relief shown pictorially.
3 kwi 2018 · For the first five decades of the eighteenth century, from the Peace of Montreal in 1701 to the outbreak of Anglo-French fighting in the Ohio Valley in 1754, Indigenous peoples had determined the Ohio Country's narrative trajectory.
