A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America … and of Aquanishuonigy, the Country of the Confederate Indians (Lewis Evans, 1755)
Lewis Evans’s 1755 map of the middle colonies and the Six Nations’ country: the Indian towns of the Ohio and the Susquehanna, the war paths and trading paths with their mileages, the portages, and his notes on the land, from Lake Ontario to the Kentucky country.
Source
| Map | A general map of the middle British colonies, in America; viz Virginia, Màriland, Dèlaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: of Aquanishuonîgy, the country of the confederate Indians; comprehending Aquanishuonîgy proper, their place of residence, Ohio and Tïiuxsoxrún |
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| Author | Lewis Evans, 1755 |
| Archive | Library of Congress |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1755 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 61 km (RMS 11.3 km at 40 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 40 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (6.9 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (6000 × 3834; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (17.1 MB)
- Print sheet over today’s map (3600 × 2200 PNG) — free (4.2 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 17.2 km, up to 56 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 40 places. From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.
Credits
- From the Native Routes sources register; Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
- Georeferencing: Native Routes
- Scan: Library of Congress
Control points
The full list of control points with residuals is in control-points.geojson. Historic names indexed for search: names.geojson.
Something on this map sits in the wrong place? Members can show where with Fix placement on the map — confirmed fixes are tested against the map’s other control points each night and credited here. For anything else, report a problem.
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