Virginia (western part, i.e., Kentucky)

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Map of Virginia at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, roads, paths, towns, forts, salt springs, mills, wigwams, and American-Indian claimed territory, with explanatory notes on road and river conditions. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:633,600] (10 miles to the inch).

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1 map : hand col. ; 60 x 44 cm.

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Filsom, John; Pursell, Henry D. & Rook, T. 1937.

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  • Geological Survey (U.S.)
    Publisher Info: Reprinted 1937, by U.S. Geological Survey.
    Place of Publication: [Washington, D.C.]

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  • Main Title: Virginia (western part, i.e., Kentucky)
  • Added Title: Virginia at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, from 1784 and 1789 maps in the Library of Congress at Washington.

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Map of Virginia at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing counties, roads, paths, towns, forts, salt springs, mills, wigwams, and American-Indian claimed territory, with explanatory notes on road and river conditions. Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:633,600] (10 miles to the inch).

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1 map : hand col. ; 60 x 44 cm.

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Original title: "New Map of the States of Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virgina, and Maryland, Including the Spanish Provinces of West and East Florida From the latest surveys."

Original dedication: "This Map of Kentucke, Drawn from actual Observations is inscribed with the most perfect respect to the Honorable, the Congress of the United States of America; and to his Excellency George Washington last Commander in Chief of their Army. By their Humble Servant, John Filsom."

Original publication information: "Philadelphia. Engraved by Henry D. Pursell & Printed by T. Rook for the Author 1784."

"While this work shall live, this inscription remains a monument of the gratitude of the author, to Colonels Dan. Boon, Levi Todd, & Jas. Harrod, Captains Christopher Greenhoop, Ino. Cowan, & Wm. Kennedy, Esq. of Kentucke: for the distinguished assistance, with which they have honored him, in its composition: & a testimony that it has received the approbation of those who he is justly esteems, the best qualified to judge of it merit."

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  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002084027
  • Accession or Local Control No: 8.A.16
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth493452

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Abilene Library Consortium

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Filsom, John; Pursell, Henry D. & Rook, T. Virginia (western part, i.e., Kentucky), map, 1937; [Washington, D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth493452/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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