Map No. II, laid down by a scale of five miles to an inch, to accompany A Bill in the Chancery of New-Jersey (1747)
The second map of the 1747 Bill in Chancery of New-Jersey: the Indian Path from the Raritan to the Minisink country on the upper Delaware, the Minisink and Navesink paths, the roads and the old partition lines of East and West Jersey.
Source
| Map | Map no. II : [to accompany A bill in the chancery of New Jersey, at the suit of John, Earl of Stair ... against Benjamin Bond]. |
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| Author | Bill in Chancery of New-Jersey, 1747 |
| Archive | New York Public Library |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1747 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 30 km (RMS 5.4 km at 7 control points). Placed by hand in a map-queue session and approved by a person. If something sits in the wrong place, members can fix it with Fix placement on the map. |
| Method | Placed by hand: a first-order polynomial fit to 7 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.0, updated 2026-09-30 |
| Covers | New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania |
Downloads
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Project Homeland
This map’s trails are traced into Project Homeland, one map of the trail network melded from every traced source, where they are compared with the other maps’ lines. Members can trace more of them: Trace a trail on the map.
Changelog
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 7 places. From the Native Routes sources register; New York Public Library.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; New York Public Library
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: New York Public Library
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
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