A sketch of the provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland & Virginia shewing the line of forts lately built on the frontiers of those colonies and their situation with respect to the French forts on the Ohio and Lake Erie also the route from Albany to Oswego, with the forts built and to be built for [its?] security

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Alexander, William, 1726-1783.

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A sketch of the provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland & Virginia shewing the line of forts lately built on the frontiers of those colonies and their situation with respect to the French forts on the Ohio and Lake Erie [cartographic material] : also the route from Albany to Oswego, with the forts built and to be built for [its?] security / drawn by order of His Excellency General Shirley by William Alexander, Secy. & copy'd by Mr. Bartman.

Published

[1756]

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1 online resource, 1 ms. map : col.

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Scale indeterminable.

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Map extending from the lower part of Lake Ontario south to the northern boundary of North Carolina, and from Detroit and Lake Erie in the west to Albany and Long Island in the east. Shows French and British forts marked in red, and province boundaries marked in blue or yellow.

Hand col.

"In Majr. Genl. Shirley's letter (No. 2) of March 8th 1756."--Fragment pasted on lining paper of binding.

Originally part of Colonial Office file CO 5/46/431.

Volume reference no. on publisher's website: MPG 1/332.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2015. (Colonial America. Module 1)

The National Archives

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Variant and related titles

Title on fragment pasted on lining paper of binding: Sketch of the forts on the Western frontiers &c.

Colonial America. Module l. Early settlement, expansion and rivalries.

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