Map of the Country of the VI Nations Proper, with Part of the Adjacent Colonies (Guy Johnson, 1771; engraved 1851)
Guy Johnson's 1771 map of the country of the Six Nations for Governor Tryon, engraved in 1851: Indian villages and chief towns, the Indian paths between them, and the 1768 Fort Stanwix boundary line, from Niagara to Albany and south to the Susquehanna and the Allegheny.
Source
| Map | To his excellency William Tryon Esqr., captain general & governor in chief of the province of New-York & &: This map of the country of the VI. nations proper, with part of the adjacent colonies is humbly inscribed |
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| Author | Guy Johnson, 1851 |
| Archive | New York Public Library |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1851 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 30 km (RMS 2.3 km at 61 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 smoothing thin-plate spline through 61 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | New York, Pennsylvania |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (2.9 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 4843; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (9.7 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (2.9 MB)
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
- 1.0.1 (2026-10-06): Fix: the sheet’s edges, cut off before, restored (bounds from the warp itself); place names re-placed where the map draws them (they had been set by an approximation of the warp: median 13.9 km, up to 41 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 61 places. Suggested by a Native Routes member; the 1851 engraving of Guy Johnson's 1771 manuscript, New York Public Library.
Credits
- Suggested by a Native Routes member; the 1851 engraving of Guy Johnson's 1771 manuscript, 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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