A Chorographical Map of the Province of New York in North America, Divided into Counties, Manors, Patents and Townships
William Faden (1749/50-1836)
Category
Maps
Date
1 Jan 1779
Materials
Collection
Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1461611.2
Summary
A folding map of New York state, produced for Major General William Tryon. It is complied from 'Actual surveys deposited in the Patent Office at New York', by Claude Joseph Sauthier Esq. It is produced in black ink, with colour infills that identify boundaries.
Marks and inscriptions
Front, left: 'To His Excellency Major General William Tryon, Governor of the Province of New York and the Islands thereunto belonging Colonel of His Majesty's 78th Regt of Foot This Map, undertaken by His Order is, with His Permission most humbly Inscribed by His Excellency's most obliged devoted and obedient Servant Claude Joseph Sauthier'
Makers and roles
William Faden (1749/50-1836), cartographer Claude Joseph Southier (Strasbourg 1736 - Strasbourg 1802), mapmaker