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The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America between 1606 and 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
A map of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland with part of New Jersey &c. Shows provinces, coastal towns and a few frontier settlements, Indian villages and tribal territory, English "Factories" among the Indians, mines, rivers, numerous place-names. Covers also part of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Louisiana, and Arkansas....
Smith's map was the most accurate and detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic coastline produced in Europe until 1673. It was the source for virtually all printed maps of Virginia for more than sixty years and is considered to be one of the most significant maps of colonial America.
19 kwi 2022 · basis for most early-eighteenth-century maps of the colony. As Virginians moved west, it became clear that a new map was needed to reflect the expansion of Virginia’s western boundaries, and in 1729 and 1730 the Board of Trade in London requested a map of the colony.
18 lip 2024 · Smith’s Virginia was the most accurate and detailed map of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic coastline produced in Europe until 1673. It was the basic source for virtually all printed maps of Virginia for more than sixty years and is considered to be one of the most significant maps of colonial America ever published.
26 sie 2024 · Smith’s map remains the best-known map of colonial Virginia and a critical source of information about the history of early settlement.
19 gru 2023 · This map will allow you to zoom in on any state or county in the United States and read the names of all of the neighboring counties. The FamilySearch Library has some individual maps and the following atlases: Hale, John S. A Historical Atlas of Colonial Virginia. [Staunton, Virginia]: Old Dominion Publications, 1978. (FS Library book 975.5 ...
