Collection search - An untitled and unsigned map of NE America which contains the names of 20 patentees among whom the country was divided by the Council of New England, 29 June 1623 and which was published in the 4th volume of Samuel Purchas: Hakluytus posthumus of Purchas his pilgrims, 1625, pp. 1872-73. [cartographic material]

March 31, 1976
Copyright expired. See 1968 photo-reprint of pamphlet: NMC FC 330 S8 1968.
An 1896 facsimile of the 1625 edition of Purchas' work is found in PAL. A 1906 facsimile of the 1625 edition of Puschas; work is found in the NL. This map was published several times. A map, the same size as the [1623] (1625) but without the pagination appeared in Alexander's An Encouragement to Colonies, 1624. The NMC has a photograph of the original map in the Lands Collection which is the same as the one in Alexander's An Encouragement to Colonies, 1624 but contains as well manuscript notations additional landowners. See H3/900/[1623] (1924). PAL has a facsimile of the Alexander pamphlet with a reproduction of the [1623] map from a 19th century copper plate, 1867.

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