A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North…
Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson’s map of Virginia, in the 1755 Jefferys edition: the Indian Road by the Treaty of Lancaster down the Great Valley, the Indian road over the Alleghenies to the forks of the Ohio, and the Shawnee and Delaware towns of the upper Ohio.
Source
| Map | A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina |
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| Author | Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, 1755 |
| Archive | Library of Congress |
| Rights | Public domain. Published 1755 — before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Evidence |
| Accuracy | About 28 km (RMS 3.1 km at 63 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 63 places read from the scan and matched to their positions today. See the methodology. |
| Version | 1.0.1, updated 2026-10-06 |
| Covers | Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina |
Downloads
- Google Earth overlay (KMZ) — free (4.5 MB)
- GeoTIFF, tinted trails, EPSG:4326 (8000 × 4544; QGIS, ArcGIS) — free (17.3 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: 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 6.4 km, up to 27 km off).
- 1.0.0 (2026-09-30): First release: placed by hand at 63 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.
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