Keywords: North America -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Item 104604
New Map of English America, 1677
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1777 Media: Engraving
Item 7492
Novi Belgii: Novaeque Angliae Nec Non partis Virginiae, ca. 1655
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1655 Media: Map, ink on paper
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Exhibit
Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
Site Page
Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading
"… Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Kershaw, Gordon E."
Site Page
"Alexandra L. Montgomery, “Projecting Power in the Dawnland: Weaponizing Settlement in the Gulf of Maine World, 1710-1800” (Ph.D."
