New Hampshire

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Map of New Hampshire and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, water bodies, boundary lines, forts, and includes explanatory notes on certain geographic features. There is also an inset map in the upper-right corner titled "A General Map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario with the Adjacent Country on the West from Albany & Lake Champlain," with major cities, lakes, rivers, and falls labeled. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (approximately 15 miles to the inch).

Physical Description

1 map : some hand col. ; 50 x 47 cm.

Creation Information

Blanchard, Joseph; Langdon, Samuel & Jefferys, Thomas 1937.

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  • Geological Survey (U.S.)
    Publisher Info: Reprinted 1937, by U.S. Geological Survey.
    Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C.]

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  • Main Title: New Hampshire
  • Added Title: New Hampshire at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, from a 1784 original in the Library of Congress at Washington.

Description

Map of New Hampshire and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, towns, roads, water bodies, boundary lines, forts, and includes explanatory notes on certain geographic features. There is also an inset map in the upper-right corner titled "A General Map of the River St. Lawrence above Montreal to Lake Ontario with the Adjacent Country on the West from Albany & Lake Champlain," with major cities, lakes, rivers, and falls labeled. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (approximately 15 miles to the inch).

Physical Description

1 map : some hand col. ; 50 x 47 cm.

Notes

Original title: "An accurate map of the State and Province of New Hampshire in New England, taken from actual surveys of all the inhabited part, and from the best information of what is uninhabited, together with the adjacent countries, which exhibits the Theatre of this War in that Part of the World, by Col. Blanchard, and the Revd. Mr. Langdon."

Original dedication: "To His Excellency John Hancock esq. govr. and the honourable Council of the commonwealth of the Massachusetts and the honourable Council of the State of New Hampshire ... by ... Samuel Langdon, with many additions by Abel Sawyer, jun. Boston April 1784."

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  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002083938
  • Accession or Local Control No: 8.A.6
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth492974

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Abilene Library Consortium

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Jesse Wallace Williams Map Collection

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  • 1937

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  • Sept. 13, 2014, 4:30 p.m.

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  • Jan. 14, 2015, 9:16 a.m.

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Blanchard, Joseph; Langdon, Samuel & Jefferys, Thomas. New Hampshire, map, 1937; [Washington, D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth492974/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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