A map of the United States of N. America

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A map of the United States of N. America
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Title:
A map of the United States of N. America
Description:
The map displayed here was produced after the American Revolutionary war, when settlement of the Old Northwest was popular. To create an orderly and diplomatic process with the native inhabitants of the region, the Continental Congress imposed the Land Ordinance of 1784. This legislation regulated the governance of the territory, and divided the region into ten states, each with specified boundaries. Thomas Jefferson proposed ten names for the states, which are included on this map and outlined in light red. The Great Seal of the United States also appears in the ornamental cartouche.
Creator:
Pursell, Henry D.
Publisher:
Bailey, Francis, 1735?-1815
Name on Item:
engraved by H.D. Pursell for F. Bailey's pocket almanac.
Date:
[1784]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
United States--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:

Extent:
1 map : hand col. ; 13 x 17 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:
Philad[elphi]a : [Francis Bailey
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:17,500,000]
Language:
English
Notes:
The first known published map to show Jefferson's proposed state names in the Old Northwest.
Relief shown pictorially.
From: Bailey's pocket atlas, 1785.
This map can be viewed as a georeferenced overlay in an interactive application made especially for We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence http://d2o8owo4k087al.cloudfront.net/index.html?mapId=90.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "We Are One: Mapping America's Road from Revolution to Independence" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2015.
Identifier:
06_01_008538