PLAN of the Town & Port of BEAUFORT in Carteret County NORTH CAROLINA

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PLAN of the Town & Port of BEAUFORT in Carteret County NORTH CAROLINA
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Item Information

Title:
PLAN of the Town & Port of BEAUFORT in Carteret County NORTH CAROLINA
Cartographer:
Sauthier, Claude Joseph
Former owner:
George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
Donor:
George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830
Name on Item:
Survey'd and Drawn in August 1770 By C,J, Sauthier.
Date:
1770
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Manuscripts
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Beaufort (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fort Macon (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Carteret (county) > Fort Macon
Carteret (county) > Beaufort
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink, colour ; 43 x 53 cm
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Scale:
Scale approximately 1:3,800
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01004987623
Notes:
Relief shown by shading.
With a scale of fathoms, within the title at upper left.
With a short lettered key (A-C) within the title at upper left identifying the court house, "Goal" and "Wind Mill".
Shows and names "Fort Dobbs in ruin" (later the site of Fort Macon).
With a decorative compass arrow orienting north to the top of the map.
Titled "A drawn Plan of the Town and Port of Beaufort, in Carteret County, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Aug. 1770, by C.I. Sauthier" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
Titled 'A "plan of the town and port of Beaufort, in Carteret county, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Aug., 1770, by C.I. Sauthier," on a scale of 50 fathoms to an inch: 1 f. 3 in. x 1 f. 4 1/2 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.