Historic map collection SC.HMPCLesley Parilla, Technical Services LibrarianSpecial Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

November 2022

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-04-30 07:03:12 -0400.Description is written in: English, Latin script.Describing Archives: A Content Standard Special Collections at The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon Historic map collection SC.HMPC /repositories/3/resources/82 22 Sheets 1675-1971 English . Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research during scheduled appointments. Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.

 Arrangement

This collection is primarily arranged by size.

 Custodial History

Items in this collection were acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Materials are added to the collection as they are acquired.

 Preferred Citation

[Name and date of item], Historic Map Collection, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.

 Scope and Contents

This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George Washington.

Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.

 Maps (documents) Map, Virginia and MarylandRP-643, MAP-4349/repositories/3/archival_objects/323791 Sheetshand colored20 x 27 cm1675-1699Scales, "Comon English Miles, Marine Miles" and "Statute English Miles". Relief shown pictorially. Includes table depicting English Plantaions and Indian Plantations and Houses.Closed Stacks38Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Maps (documents)VirginiaMarylandThe Island of Barbados; divided into its parishes, with the roads, paths, &c. according to an actual and accurate surveyRP-533, MAP-4058/repositories/3/archival_objects/32206Moll, Herman, -17321 Sheets1 hand colored map37 x 29 cm on sheet 40 x 37 cm1736?Scale [1: 85,000]. Bar scale given in "English miles 60 to a degree". Relief shown pictorially. Includes explanation of drawings and content of the Parishes. Top left corner reads "Vol. 3 p. 618" and "59" in upper right corner.Shows churches, forts, plantations, windmills, submerged rocks, etc. Oriented with north toward left.English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

London: Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill (1736?)

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Appears in Atlas Minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps, in which are shewn all the empires, kingdoms, countries, states, in all the known parts of the earth; with their bounds, divisions, chief cities & towns, the whole composed & laid down agreeable to modern history. By Herman Moll, Geographer. (3rd ed.) London, Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill (1736?), pg. 59.

Maps (documents)BarbadosCarte de la Virginie et du MarylandRP-550, MAP-4079/repositories/3/archival_objects/32213Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754Jefferson, Peter, 1708-17571 Sheets1 hand colored map64 x 48 cm on sheet 75 x 55 cm1755Scale [ca. 1:870,000] (W 80⁰30ʹ--W 74⁰30ʹ/N 40⁰00ʹ--N 36⁰20ʹ). Scale listed as "Mille pas geometriques de 60 au degre. Lieues marines d'Angleterre de 20 au degre. Milles de 69 au degre". Relief shown pictorially. Relief shown pictorially. Cardinal points marked "Septentrion, Orient, Midi, Occident". Includes title cartouche, "Carte De La Virginie Et Du Maryland, Dressee sur la grande carte Angloisede Mrs. Josue Fry et Pierre Jefferson, Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy Geographe ordinaire du Roi, Avec Privlege, 1755". Name listed "Groux".French.Closed Stacks38Maps (documents)VirginiaMarylandChesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)DelawareCarte des Parties Nord et Ouest de l'AmeriqueRP-976, MAP-5407/repositories/3/archival_objects/32381Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-17861 Sheetshand colored39 x 30 cm on sheet 44 x 37 cm1772Scale [ca. 1:19,000,000]. Relief shown pictorially. "Dressée d'après les relations les plus authentiques par M. en 1764. Nouvelle édition réduite par M. de Vaugondy en 1772." At upper center, Septentrou". At upper right, "Suppl. 1re carte". Note in bottom left, "Ville des Tahuglauks selon la relation du Baron de la Hontan et qui peut avoir ete prise par quelques Geographes modernes pour Quivira a laquelle ils donnent la meme position sur la preterdue Mer de Ouest". Shows North America from California and the Gulf of Mexico north to the Arctic, including portions of eastern Siberia and Greenland.French.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Livourne, France: 1772

Maps (documents)North AmericaMap of the province of New York, reduc'd from the large drawing of the province, compiled from actual surveys by order of his Excellency Willion Tryon Efq. Captain General & Governor of the fame, by Claude Joseph Sauthier; to which is added New-Jersey, from the topographical observations of C.J. Sauthier & B. RatzerM-181/repositories/3/archival_objects/32377Faden, William, 1749-1836Sauthier, Claude JosephRatzer, Bernard1 Sheetsfolded map, colored. has been conserved.58 x 73 cm1776Includes scales, "English statue miles 69 1/2 to a Degree" and "Nautical Leagues 20 to a Degree". Scale ca. 1:1,050,000. Relief shown by hachures. Shows administrative boundaries in New York and New Jersey. Also shows portions of Pennsylvania and New England.English.Closed Stacks35Created/Published

London: Wm. Faden, 1776.

New York (State)New JerseyNew HampshireMaps (documents)PennsylvaniaMarylandA 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 1776RP-681, MAP-4835/repositories/3/archival_objects/32624Pelham, Henry, 1749-1806Jukes, Francis, 1745-18121 Sheetshand colored1777English.122 : L : 2Maps (documents)Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1775-1776A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North CarolinaMAP-6475 A/B/repositories/3/archival_objects/32625Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757Jefferys, Thomas, -1771Sayer, Robert, 1725-17942 Sheets1775Scale [ca. 1:650,000]. Prime meridians: Philadelphia, Curratuck Inlet, and London. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ... [by] Thos. Jefferys." Includes notes and distance chart. Appears in Jefferys' General topography of North America and the West Indies. London: Printed for Robert Sayer, ... and Thomas Jefferys, 1768.English.Closed StacksTableCreated/Published

London : Printed for Robt. Sayer ... & Thos. Jefferys, 1775

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Maps (documents)VirginiaMarylandPennsylvaniaNew JerseyNorth CarolinaMiddle Atlantic StatesPlan de la bataille de Montmouth où le Gl. Washington commandait l'Armée Américaine et le Gl. Clinton l'Armée Anglaise, le 28 Juin 1778RP-2574, MAP-6943/repositories/3/archival_objects/322611 Sheets39 x 21 cm on sheet 43 x 28 cm1781-1782Scale ca. 1:30,500.. Includes table explination of figures,"Explication des Chifres" . Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the upper left.French.Closed Stacks38Created/Published

Bruxelles: Michel Rene, 1781-1782

New JerseyUnited States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783Maps (documents)Plan D'York en Virginie, avec les attaques et les campemens de l'Armée de combinée de France et d'AmériqueRP-643, MAP-4351/repositories/3/archival_objects/32378Soulés, François, 1748-18091 Sheetscolored38 x 29 cm on sheet 43 x 38 cm1787Scale, "Echelle de 600 Toises". Relief shown pictorially. Hachuring is used to indicate elevations. Includes a "Nota" explaining the map drawings and color.French.Closed Stacks38Created/Published

Paris: François Soulés, 1787

VirginiaMaps (documents)United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783Yorktown (Va.) -- History -- Siege, 1781A new and complete map of the West IndiesRP-555, MAP-4132/repositories/3/archival_objects/322081 Sheets1 map85 x 46 on sheet 89 x 52 cm1794 May 12English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

London: Mons. R. Danville, published by Laurie & Whittle, 1794 May 12

Maps (documents)West IndiesMap of Virginia, Maryland and DelawareRP-643, MAP-4350/repositories/3/archival_objects/32380Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814Mutlow, I.1 Sheets48 x 33 cm1794 July 16Scale [ca. 1:1,550,000] (W 83⁰--W 74⁰/N 40⁰--N 36⁰). Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: London. "Longitude West from London" on bottom right corner.English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Picadily, London: J. Stockdal, 1794. Statement of responsibility: I. Mutlow sc. 6 James St. Covt. Gardn.

Maps (documents)VirginiaMarylandDelawareThe State of Virginia from the best authoritiesRP-735, MAP-4941/repositories/3/archival_objects/32263Lewis, SamuelSmither, JamesJefferson, Thomas, 1743-18261 Sheets1 map51 x 35 cm on sheet 55 x 39 cm1794Includes scale. Prime meridians: Philadelphia and London. "Longitude W. from London" is at center bottom. "Longitude W. from Philadelphia" is center top. Relief shown pictorially.English.Closed Stacks38General

Philadelphia : Samuel Lewis for Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved, 1794

Maps (documents)Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and by them established as the seat of their government after the year 1800RP-2544, MAP-6912/repositories/3/archival_objects/32262Russell, John, active 1733-17951 Sheets1 map52 x 40 cm on sheet 56 x 43 cm1795"Scale of Poles". Includes table of "Remarks". Oriented north to the top. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

London: John Russell, 1795

Washington (D.C.)Maps (documents)Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their Government, after the year MDCC RP-859, MAP-5266/repositories/3/archival_objects/33170Thackara & Vallance1 Sheets1 map86 x 64 cm1792English.Closed Stacks38Maps (documents)Plan of Mt. Vernon, the home of WashingtonM-836/repositories/3/archival_objects/322591 Sheets1 map29 x 36 on sheet 32 x 40 cm1855English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

C. Currier, 1855

George Washington's land at Mount Vernon Fairfax coy Virginia. As it was & as it is2017-SC-021/repositories/3/archival_objects/32788Gillingham, W.1 Sheets1 map42 x 31 cm1859English.Closed Stacks38Maps (documents)Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Johnson's Georgetown and the city of Washington: the capital of the United States of AmericaRP-481, MAP-3875/repositories/3/archival_objects/322051 Sheets1 colored map46 x 36 cm1862Bar scale. Relief shown pictorially. Includes illustrations of Washington Monument, Capitol, and Smithsonian Institution. Bottom right cornor displays "37".English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

New York: Johnson & Ward, 1862

Maps (documents)Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)George Washington's map of his Mount Vernon Estate, drawn by him in 1793 and based on his own surveysRP-1012b MAP-5447/n/repositories/3/archival_objects/322601 Sheets53 x 37 cm on sheet 57 x 41 cm1945English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Published, Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 1945 Copyright, California: the Huntington Library, 1931

Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Maps (documents)Plan of the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia in 1798RP-541, MAP-4070/repositories/3/archival_objects/322071 Sheets1 map72 x 57 cm1944English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

New York: Drawn by George Gilbin in 1797, engraved by T. Clarke, published by I.V. Thomas, 1798

Maps (documents)Proposed Piscataway Park and Mount Vernon viewshedRP-2137, MAP-6602/repositories/3/archival_objects/322102 Sheets2 colored maps44 x 29 cmapproximately 1960Includes legendEnglish.Closed Stacks38Reference numbers

MV 357, E 312.5 C.57

Maps (documents)Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Status of Proposed Piscataway Park, MD. To preserve lands which provide the principle overview from the Mount Vernon Estate and Fort WashingtonRP-2136, MAP-6601/a-b/repositories/3/archival_objects/322092 Sheets2 colored maps43 x 29 cm1965 JanuaryIncludes legendEnglish.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Citizens Committee in Natural Resources, 1965

Reference numbers

MV 359, E 312.5 C57

Maps (documents)Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)Piscataway Park, Charles and Prince George CountiesRP-2139, MAP-6604/repositories/3/archival_objects/322121 Sheets1 map61 x 46 cm1966English.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Washington DC: U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, Division of Land and Water Rights, July 1966. Revised 1976.

Maps (documents)The Accokeek Foundation area. Piscataway Park and Mount Vernon viewshedRP-2138, MAP-6603/a-b/repositories/3/archival_objects/322112 Sheets2 colored maps43 x 28 cm1971 March 15Includes legendEnglish.Closed Stacks38Created / Published

Citizens Committee in Natural Resources, 1971 March 15

Reference numbers

MV 358, E 312.5 C.57

Maps (documents)Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)