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![Thomas Pelham-Holles (Duke of Newcastle), James Oglethorpe, Francisco del Moral y Sánchez, et al., From the Duke of Newcastle. July 1736. Enclosing Papers on Georgia [Official copies of letters and other documents relating to the affairs of Georgia and its boundary dispute with Spanish Florida, submitted to Newcastle by Oglethorpe, and transmitted by Newcastle to Prime Minister Robert Walpole.] England, July 2, 1736.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BRM4204-Newcastle_Oglethorpe_Georgia-archive_combined_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A remarkable gathering of letters and other documents, submitted in 1736 by James Oglethorpe to the Duke of Newcastle and addressing the festering boundary dispute between the Colony of Georgia and Spanish Florida. Copied in a secretarial hand for transmission to King George II, with a signed cover letter by Newcastle. In all, a rich […]
![Eman[uel] Bowen, Geographer to his Majesty, A NEW MAP of Georgia, with Part of CAROLINA, FLORIDA and LOUISIANA. Drawn from Original Draughts, assisted by the most approved Maps and Charts. [London: Thomas Woodward et al., 1748].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BRM3756-Bowen-New-Map-of-Georgia-1737_lowres-scaled-e1615389846787-150x150.jpg)
An early, important English map of the Georgia colony, chartered in 1732, here depicted with its borders extending to the Mississippi River and presumably on to the Pacific, although actual physical settlement was then limited to a narrow band along the Atlantic coast. The original charters of the English colonies in North America established boundaries […]
![Engraved from an Indian Draught by T[homas] Kitchin, A New MAP of the CHEROKEE NATION with the Names of the Towns & Rivers… London, 1760.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BRM4449-Kitchin-Cherokee-Nation-1760-150x150.jpg)
A scarce and significant map of the Cherokee Nation at the end of the French and Indian War, said to be based on “an Indian Draught”. The map depicts the area bounded by the Hiwassee River (labeled “A Branch of Mississipi R.”), the Little Tennessee River (“Cherokees or Hogohegee R.”) and the headwaters of the […]
One of the finest charts of the southern coastline available to British mariners during the Revolution. The 25 miles of coast from Georgia’s Savannah River to Port Royal Sound, North Carolina was of great strategic import, encompassing as it did the superb harbor at Port Royal and the approaches to the city of Savannah. At […]
![Claud Thomson, Surveyor, Georgia, The within Plat is a representation of a Body of Land containing one hundred & forty-seven thousand, seven hundred & seventy-three Acres in all, granted in the Name of Daniel Beall… [probably Savannah], August, 1794.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BRM4233-Thomson-survey-of-Daniel-Beall-land-in-Georgia_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A rare and remarkable 18th-century manuscript map and text promoting a vast tract of frontier land in Franklin County, northeast Georgia (now virtually the entire area of present-day Banks County.) Per the Headright and Bounty Land Records of Georgia, Daniel Beall received these lands in 1793-1794, in hundreds of individual grants of 1000 acres each […]
A trove of information, this chart includes immensely detailed soundings; navigational hazards; navigational aids such as lighthouses and light ships; and sailing directions. Also provided is detailed topographical and cartographical information on the adjacent coastal regions, at times extending well inland. An earlier version of this chart printed on thin paper were bound in the Report […]
![[Adolph and Henryt Lindenkohl], SKETCH OF PORTIONS OF SEA COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Coast Survey, 1863.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BRM3917-USCS-South-Carolina-and-Georgia_low-resolution-scaled-e1689705643608-150x150.jpg)
Very rare map of the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia issued by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1863, no doubt for use in the Union blockade of the Confederate coast. Background As war with the Confederacy loomed in early 1861, Union leadership under General Winfield Scott drew up what came to be known as the […]