This transcript map was copied from an original "Murray map" held by the British Museum. This map, with its three "Repetition Plans", is of the first form made. This copy is of Part IV only, that area from Lotbiniere to Isle aux Coudres. The sheets are entitled as follows: a) Key map of plan that part of Canada and the River St. Lawrence which lies between Cape Tourment and Dechambeaux on the north shore Point de la Caille and Laubiniere on the south, etc, etc. From the British Museum, King's Library, CXIX-27. Drawn by C. Pettigrew, Mar. 1915. [to show areas covered by the following sheet]; 34.3 x 67.8. b) Sheet no 1. [Title shhet:1 Plan of that part of Canada and the River St. Lawrence which lies between Cape Torment and Dechambeaux on the north shore Point de la Caille and Laubiniere on the south; in which the city of Quebec, and all the villages, habitations, and cultivated county in that extend are accurately laid down; with all the different places of landing and embarkations, the encamptments, entrenchments, lines of battle and principal movements of the British and French Armies, while this county was the seat of war. The whole from a survey carried on under the Directions of the Honourable, Brigadier, General Murray Governour of Quebec &c. The tract of country contained in this plan was surveyed by the following officer, vizt...Capt. Holland...Capt. Lt. Spry...Lieut, Peach...Ens. Pittman...Explanation of the references...B.M.K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 1; 88.0 x 63.1. c) Sheet No. 2. [showing locations of Repetition Plans 1 and 31, B.M.K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 2; 106.8 x 69.8. d) Sheet No. 3. [Parish of Old Lorette... Parish of Charlebourgh...Parish of Beauport...Parish of St. Augustine...]B.M.K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 3; 103.9 x 73.0. e) Sheet No. 4 [Table showing] Number od families and mean able to bear arms in each parish of the Province of Canada... [and] Quebec...[with physical description, history, and mention of its present condition]...B.M, K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 4; 104.5 x 72.9. f) Sheet No. 5 [Mission of Jeune Lorette...Parish of St. Joachim...Parish of St. Anne's...Parish of L'ange Gardien...Parish of Chateau Richer..Parish of St. Francois....Parish of St. Famille....Parish of St. Lawrence...Parish of St. Jean Baptist...Parish of St. Peter...Parish of St. Michele...] B.M., K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 5; 104.7 x 73.1. g) Sheet No. 6 [Cape Torment, St. Grancois, L'isle aux Rots, L'Isle au Madame, Parish of St. Vallier, Parish of Berthier...Parish of St. Peter's...] B.M., K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 6; 110.0 x 70.4. h) Sheet No. 7. [Parish of Dechambeaux...parish of Cape Sante...Parish of Lotbiniere...Parish of St. Croix...] From the King's Library, CXIX - 27, British Museum; 47.6 x 68.6. i) Sheet No. 8 [Parish of the Ecureuils...Parish of Point aux Trembles...Parish of St. Antoine...] B.M., K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 8; 46.4 x 69.6. j) Sheet No. 9. [Parish of St. Nicolas...]B.M, K. CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 9; k) Sheet No. 10. [Parish of St. Foix... Point Levi...]B.M.,K CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 10; 44.6 x 73.]. l) Sheet No. 11 [Parish of Beaumont...Parish of St. Michelle...Parish of Berthier...Parish of St. Charles....Parish of St. Francois...Parish of St Thomas...]B.M.K, CXIX - 27, Sheet No. 11; 43.8 x 72.9. m) Sheet No. 12. [Parish of St. Valliers...] B.M.K, CXIX - 27. Sheet No. 12. Copied by C. Pettigrew, 1914-15; 42.8 x 70.5. n) Continuation of the Grande River with the village of Fariole lying near Cape Tourment on the north shore...[and] the continuation of the south river as far as Point a la Caille where it falls into the St. Lawrence River. Joining to A.B. From the King's Library, CXIX - 27, British Museum, Copied by C. Pettigrew, Octr. 1913; 37.4 x 73.2. o) Repetition Pln. No. 1 Plan of Quebec with the positions of the British and French Army's on the Heights of Abraham 13th of Sepr 1759...Explanation of the Town of Quebec...From the King's Library, CXIX - 27, British Museum.
Copied by C. Pettigrew, July, 1913; 50.0 x 73.4. p) Repetition Pln. No. 2. Plan of the Battle and situation of the British and French Army's on the Heights of Abraham the 28th of April 1760... From the King's Library, CXIX - 27, British Museum. Copied by C. Pettigrew, Aug. 1913; 50.3 x 74.2. q) Repetitions Pln. No. 3. Plan of Quebec and the Heights of Abraham shewing in particular the French encampment...From the King's Library, CXIX - 27, British Museum, Copied by C. Pettigrew, Sept. 1913; 52.8 x 73.8. The original of this map and the other four in existence, are described and compared in: The Cartographer (see note 1). The NMC holds two original Murray maps, one of the first form created for the Board of Ordnance and one of the second form (See note 2). The date 1761 has been supplied because the survey was completed in that year; the maps were drawn individually later.
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(1) N.N. Shipton, "General James Murray's map of the St. Lawrence", The Cartographer, (Toronto: York University), Vol. 4, No. 2, Dec. 1967, pp. 93/ 101. (2) P/300/[1761] H11/300/[1761] Contact prints: Sheet No. 7 C80568, Rep. Pln. No. 1 C82328, Rep. Pln No. 2. C82329, Rep. Pln. No. 3 C82330.
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