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Based on a 1665 survey by William Reed, this is the earliest map drawn, engraved and printed in North America. The survey was commissioned by the government of Massachusetts to justify the colony's northern and southern boundaries, which are indicated by two parallel lines on the map. The map was prepared as a woodcut illustration for William Hubbard's account of the terrible Indian massacres of 1675, known as King Phillip's War, which was published simultaneously in Boston and London. The latter edition included the same map (displayed here), except the White Hills were mislabeled as the Wine Hills.
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3f462s93b
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A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the scituation of the country, and conveniently well the distance of places
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map
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3f462s93b
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
A map of New-England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it made the other less exact; yet does it sufficiently shew the scituation of the country, and conveniently well the distance of places
description
Based on a 1665 survey by William Reed, this is the earliest map drawn, engraved and printed in North America. The survey was commissioned by the government of Massachusetts to justify the colony's northern and southern boundaries, which are indicated by two parallel lines on the map. The map was prepared as a woodcut illustration for William Hubbard's account of the terrible Indian massacres of 1675, known as King Phillip's War, which was published simultaneously in Boston and London. The latter edition included the same map (displayed here), except the White Hills were mislabeled as the Wine Hills.
date
["[1677]"]
year
1677
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_001228
creators
Foster, John, 1648-1681
Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
New England--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
New England
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
London
publisher
s.n.
Source extras
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sf268508b
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jq086303k
schema:latitude
44.2033
schema:longitude
-70.3039
extent
1 map ; 30 x 39 cm.
notes
Oriented with north to the right.
Relief shown pictorially.
"The figures that are joyned with the names of places are to distinguish such as have been assaulted by the Indians from others."
Appears in William Hubbard's A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New England. London. 1677.
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3f462s93b
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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6a04429736d0c711