Boston and Vicinty Revolutionary War Era Maps on CD

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This CD contains 55 rare antique maps and descriptive pages representing fascinating details about Boston and its vicinity during the Revolutionary War.

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This CD contains 55 rare antique maps and descriptive pages representing fascinating details about Boston and its vicinity during the Revolutionary War in MrSid format. This format allows you to see the entire map on your computer screen or drill down to see the smallest details. The original maps are often quite large, as much as 36" long or larger and quite detailed. With the MrSID software, you can manipulate the map to print the entire map in great detail or zoom into a portion of the map in full detail for viewing or printing. You could even bring the images to a local print shop to have the maps reprinted in their full size. (MrSID software is included on the CD.)

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Plan of the action which happen'd 17th. June 1775, at Charles Town, N. America. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:8,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Inscribed on verso: Plan of the action, Charles Town, 17th June 1775. Eng. Page.
[Rough draft of Charlestown, in water colour. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,500. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans, 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows position of British and "Rebel" troops during the Battle of Bunker Hill. North is oriented to the bottom. Called a rough draft of the same cartographer's "Plan of Charles Town... after the action of the 17th. June 1775." . It is however, a detailed delineation of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Names and writing are similar to Lieut. Page's Plan of action which happen'd 17th. June 1775.
A plan of the action at Bunkers-Hill, on the 17th. of June, 1775, between His Majesty's troops under the command of Major General Howe, and the rebel forces, by Lieut. Page, of the Engineers, who acted as aide de camp to General Howe in that action. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. An engraved map, with change of title, appears in Stedman's History of the origin, process, and termination of the American War. London, 1794. A copy of this issue is included in William Faden's Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution. [New York, 1845] Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. "N.B. The ground plan is from an actual survey of Captn. Montresor."
A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American provincials, on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June 1775. Engravd by Jefferys & Faden. Jefferys, Thomas, d. 1771. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:13,800. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for points of military interest.
A Plan of the battle, on Bunkers Hill fought on the 17th of June 1775, by an officer on the spot. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:12,000. Relief shown by hachures. In lower margin: The following description of the action near Boston, on the 17th of June, is taken from a letter written by General Burgoyne to his nephew Lord Stanley.
Bunker Hill--rough sketch. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775?] NOTES Scale not given. Title from Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Shows landing places, positions of British units, and "Rebels line of march."
Battle of Bunker Hill. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,900. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military interest in different hand and ink.
A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity. Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, 1776?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
Plan d'une partie de la rade de Boston pour faire connaitre le dispositif de ses deffenses. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1778] NOTES Scale ca. 1:42,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. "Legende" includes positions of vessels of French fleet, by name and commander. Accompanied by: Partie extraite d'un Memoire g?n?ral sur Boston.
A new and accurate chart of the harbour of Boston in New England in North America / J. Lodge, sc. Lodge, John, d. 1796. CREATED/PUBLISHED London : J. Bew, 1782. NOTES Also shows islands, rocks, channels, shoals, and towns and roads along coast. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In upper right margin: Political Mag., Nov. 1782.
A plan of the town and chart of the harbour of Boston : exhibiting a view of the islands, castle forts, and entrances into the said harbour. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London : s.n., 1775] NOTES Depths shown by soundings. From Gentleman's magazine, vol. 45, Jan. 1775. In center of lower margin: Feby. 1st 1775.
A Map of 100 miles round Boston. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London, 1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:800,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows area from Cape Ann to the Connecticut River and from northern Connecticut River and from northern Connecticut and Rhode Island to Kittery and York in Maine.
Map of the environs of Boston. Drawn at Boston in June, 1775. Almon, John, 1737-1805. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, J. Almon, 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:46,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From The Remembrancer, 3d ed. 1775. Shows camp and lines of Generals Putnam, Ward, and Thomas and batteries and fortifications in the Boston area.
Roxbury to Concord. Roads & distances, &c. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775?] NOTES Not drawn to scale. Title from manuscript catalog of the Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by hachures.
Map of the environs of Roxbury showing roads to Jamaica, Cambridge, Dorchester, Milton, etc. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775?] NOTES Scale not given. Title from P. L. Phillips' List of maps of America. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Typewritten label on verso: Map of the environs of Boston showing roads from Roxbury to Dorchester, Milton, Jamaica, Cambridge, and Walter T., Brooklyn and N. York. 1775.
Grundriss von der Stadt Boston und ihren Gegenden. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1758] NOTES Scale ca. 1:45,000. Relief shown by hachures.
Plan de la ville et du port de Boston; capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre. Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772. CREATED/PUBLISHED Paris, Ch?s Lattr? [1764?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:11,300. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903. Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.
A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America with the many additionall buildings & new streets, to the year, 1769. Price, William, fl. 1725-1769. CREATED/PUBLISHED Boston [1769] NOTES Scale ca. 1:5,700. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC copy annotated in ink. On bottom of the sheet, covered with a heavy outer neat line: Engraved and printed by Fra. Dewing, Boston NE. 1722. Sold by Capt. John Bonner ... Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.
Boston Harbour, with the surroundings, &c. Hills, John, surveyor CREATED/PUBLISHED 177-?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper left.
Major Genl. Howe's encampment on Bunkers Hill at Charles T., June 1775. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows position of troops and fortifications.
Plan of the "Neck" and fortifications] Delivd. to H.E. Gl. Gage, June 30th. 1775.--J.M. Montr?sor, John, 1736-1799. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:5,650. Title from P. L. Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 148. Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps: Works for defense of Boston. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures.
Plan of the heights of Charles Town, &c. R: W: Lieut.: R. W. F. Boston, Dec. 13, 1775. Williams, Richard, 18th cent. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:6,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north toward the upper left. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: work made in place of the rebels' redoubt.
A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp. Aitken, sculp. Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia, 1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:7,200. "Engrav'd for the Pennsylva. magazine" v. 1, 1775, p. 29. Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset of provincial camp, ca. 1:125,000.
Plan of the peninsula of Charles Town shewing the three posts that His Majesty's troops have kept and fortified with buildings therein for guard rooms, Boston, 3th. [sic] Decr. 1775. To His Excellency Major General Howe, Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces, &c. John Montresor, commandg. engrs. Montr?sor, John, 1736-1799. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,860. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Dedication is in different ink from drafting of map. Includes index to major fortifications.
Plan of Charles Town, with the intrenchments, and encampment of His Majesty's troops, after the action of the 17th. June 1775. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:4,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. The writing is similar to that of Lieut. Page on his "Plan of the action which happen'd 17th. June 1775." and also very like the "Rough draft of Charlestown"
A draught of the towns of Boston and Charles Town and the circumjacent country shewing the works thrown up by His Majesty's troops, and also those by the rebels, during the campaign: 1775. Montr?sor, John, 1736-1799. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775] NOTES Scale ca. 1:26,500. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: J. Whatman. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. "N.B. The rebels entrenchments are express'd as they appear from Beacon Hill which are color'd yellow."
Boston, S. West part. No. 25. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:5,600. Title in pencil; matches title in Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications and troop stations, including the 4th, 5th, 10th, 47th, and Marines.
Sketch of the action between the British forces and American provincials, on the heights of the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th June 1775. [By] Iohn Humfrey. Humfrey, John, 18th cent. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:13,800. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown pictorially and by shading. Shows troop movements. Includes "Explanation," an index to troops and points of military interest.
A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent with the road from Boston to Concord, shewing the place of the late engagement between the King's troops & the provincials, together with the several encampments of both armies in & about Boston. Taken from an actual survey. Humbly inscribed to Richd. Whitworth by J. De Costa; C. Hall, sc. De Costa, J. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:120,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index to points of military interest.
Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America. Aitken, sculp. Aitken, Robert, 1735-1802. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia, 1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines.
A Plan oe [i.e. of] the British lines on Boston Neck in August 1775. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:3,300. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom.
A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive miles south of Boston, including an accurate draft of the harbour and town. CREATED/PUBLISHED [n.p., 1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:320,000. Relief shown pictorially. Includes "References to the harbour and environs of Boston," reflecting points of general interest and military events which occured in 1775, "References to the town of Boston," and inset of "Boston Town."
Plan of the Neck and environs. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:12,000. Title in brackets on verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications at the Boston Neck and ranges to different points from a battery on Foster's Hill on Dorchester Neck and from fortifications outside the Neck which do not agree.
Plan of Boston & vicinity. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from verso, legible only with back lighting. Alternate title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: Boston and environs, showing entrenchments. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the left. Relief shown by shading and hachures.
Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against that town in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from those of other gentlemen. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1775?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
A plan of the town of Boston and its environs, with the lines, batteries, and incampments of the British and American armies. [Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir] 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776] NOTES Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes "References."
Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les c?tes adjacentes, dans laquel on a trac?e les camps et les retranchemens occup?, tant par les Anglois que par les Am?ricains. Dedi?e et present?e au Roi par ... le Chr. de Beaurain, ge?graphe de sa majeste ... en 1776. Grav? P. Croisey ci-devant graveur de la marine. Beaurain, chevalier de, fils. CREATED/PUBLISHED Paris [1776] NOTES Scale ca. 1:22,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Cette carte ? ?t? copi? sur un plan original apport? ? la cour d'Angleterre ... " Shows location of British and American forces. Indexed for points of interest. Soundings shown in fathoms.
A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His Majesty's army, and also those of the rebels. Drawn by an engineer at Boston, Octr. 1775. The principal part of this plan was survey'd by Richard Williams, Lieutenant at Boston ... Engrav'd by Jno. Lodge. Williams, Richard, 18th cent. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, Andrew Dury, 1776. NOTES Scale ca. 1:15,000. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Fort on Charlestown Point. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776?] NOTES Scale 1:3,168; 264 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures.
Fort on Dorcester Point. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776?] NOTES Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures.
Fort on Fort Hill in Boston. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776?] NOTES Scale 1:1,584; 132 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures.
Fort on the first hill in Dorcester. Fort on the second hill in Dorcester. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776?] NOTES Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures.
Rough draught of Boston and harbour. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1776?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:18,500. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Shows location of troops and fortifications.
Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston mit den umliegenden Gegenden und der L?gern sowohl der Americaner als auch des Engl?nder, von dem Cheval. de Beaurin nach dem Pariser Orignal von 1776. G. F. I. Frentzel, sculps. Beaurain, chevalier de, fils. CREATED/PUBLISHED Leipzig, In der Johann Carl M?llerischen Buch und Kunsthandlung zu haben [1776?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:25,000. Hand colored to show location of British and American forces. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majestys forces in 1775: From the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers; and from the plans of other gentlemen. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London]; Engraved & printed for Wm. Faden, 1777. NOTES Scale ca. 1:9,700. Includes "References to the lines &c." and "References to the town."
A plan of Boston in New England with its environs, including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown, parts of Malden and Chelsea with the military works constructed in those places in the years 1775 and 1776. Engrav'd in aqua tinta by Francis Jukes. Pelham, Henry, 1749-1806. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, 1777. NOTES Scale ca. 1:14,000. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Includes facsimile of pass issued by James Urquhart, town major, to allow free passage of Henry Pelham "to take a plan of the towns of Boston & Charlestown and the rebel works round these places;" dedication "To the Right Honourable Lord George Germain ... " with autographed signature of Henry Pelham; and, index to points of interest in margin. Oriented with north toward the upper right.
A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majesty's forces in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from those of other gentlemen. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1777?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:9,600. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures.
Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th. of June 1775. Robson, T. CREATED/PUBLISHED Newcastle upon Tyne [Eng.] Printed for T. Robson [1778] NOTES Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially.
Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against that town in 1775, from the observations of Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers, and from the plans of Capt. Montresor. Page, Thomas Hyde, Sir, 1746-1821. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London] Wm. Faden, 1778. NOTES Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
A Temporary project for a star redout [sic] to contain 150 men. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1778?] NOTES Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. "No. 53." On verso, partly illegible and in a different hand: Boston ... part of the ... project for the war ... Drawing of a fortification on the road to Roxbury near Boston Neck, with list of proposed guns.
Chart of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound. Des Barres, Joseph F. W. (Joseph Frederick Wallet), 1722-1824. CREATED/PUBLISHED London] 1776. NOTES Scale ca. 1:51,000. Depths shown by soundings.
Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket. Knight, John. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1778] NOTES Scale ca. 1:100,000. Title on verso: Nantucket Shoals and Buzzards's Bay by Lieutt. Knight, 1778. Soundings shown in fathoms. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a shield surmounted by a crown over an undecipherable figure, all of which are over the letters GR and J. Whatman.
A plan of the harbour and peninsula of Cape Ann in North America, drawn from a survey: the soundings & naval observations by Lieut: Henry Mowat, commander of His. Majys: armed ship Canceaux P: D'Auvergne, fecit, 1776. N.B. this is surveyed by Samuel Holland, Esqr. Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1776] NOTES Scale ca. 1:53,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
A general & particular plan of the island of Castle William near Boston, shewing the works in their original & present state, together with sections thro' the same. Carried on and survey'd under the direction of and by John Montr?sor, Esqr., engineer extraordinary & Capt. Lieut. by order of the Honble: Thomas Gage, Esqr., Lieutenant General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America. Montr?sor, John, 1736-1799. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1771?] NOTES Scale 1:600; 50 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Relief shown by shading. Oriented with north toward the upper right.
The Seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer, with the marches of the several corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston, with the attack on Bunkers-Hill. CREATED/PUBLISHED London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, 1775. NOTES Scale ca. 1:450,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Boston. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "Plan of Boston Harbour, from an actual survey" and "Plan of the town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775."

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