[Map showing Fort William Henry, Fort Carillon, Fort St Frederic, and the upper reaches of the Connecticut River]

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[Map showing Fort William Henry, Fort Carillon, Fort St Frederic, and the upper reaches of the Connecticut River]
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Item Information

Title:
[Map showing Fort William Henry, Fort Carillon, Fort St Frederic, and the upper reaches of the Connecticut River]
Former owner:
Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797
Former owner:
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Date:
[ca. 1755]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
British Library
Collection (local):
British Library Collection
Subjects:
Fortification--Pennsylvania--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Fortification--New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Connecticut River--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
New York (State)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Places:
Connecticut (river)
New York
Pennsylvania
Extent:
1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 48 x 37 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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Publisher:
[Place of production not identified] : [Producer not identified]
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
French
Catalog Record:
http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-001999744
Notes:
Date from previous British Library cataloguing (and from forts shown).
Shows Native American nomenclature?
Shows settlements along the rivers only, no interior geography is shown.
Shows the overland path beween Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River ("Chemin quele sauvages [?]").
Copy at Add Ms 57,712.1. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVII. Shows manuscript addition of "1" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 27/40" in pencil at lower right and "A 64" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "18". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 27 SECTION 6". Blue label to verso shows "A 27/40". Illegible annotations to verso in pencil.
Notes (date):
9999