File:Kent Island Queenstown Maryland 1775.png
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English: This 1775 map shows the area near Kent Island, Province of Maryland including Queenstown (to the east) and Annapolis (west across the Chesapeake Bay). The Catholic community around Queenstown, established in the 1640s, was the first on Maryland’s eastern shore. |
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This is a portion of a 1775 map created for Robert Sayer in London. The entire map can be found in the Library of Congress and shows the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of “Pensilvania”, New Jersey and North Carolina. [https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3800.ar143000/?r=0.198,0.036,1.032,0.44,0 map] |
| Author | Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, Robert Sayer, Thomas Jeffrys |
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| current | 15:41, 31 July 2019 | | 1,126 × 692 (1.11 MB) | TwoScarsUp | User created page with UploadWizard |
