A Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and townships (Claude Joseph…
Claude Joseph Sauthier’s great survey map of New York on the eve of the Revolution: the patents and townships, the Oneida, Onondaga and Mohawk country with its castles and carrying places, and the paths from the Mohawk to Oswego and the St. Lawrence.
Source
| Map | A chorographical map of the Province of New-York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and townships |
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| Author | Claude Joseph Sauthier, 1779 |
| Archive | Leventhal Map & Education Center |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1779 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 29 km (RMS 4.3 km at 16 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 16 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, Vermont, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (8.8 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (6000 × 5856; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (22.4 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (3.2 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: place names re-placed where the map draws them (they had been set by an approximation of the warp: median 4.6 km, up to 11 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 16 places. From the Native Routes sources register; Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Leventhal Map & Education Center
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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