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resources from the regular collections show-and-tell at the Earth Sciences and Map Library

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Maps from Hamilton Grange

Hamilton Estate Map
A plan of New York Island, Part of Long Island, etc., Showing the Position of the American and British Armies, Before, at, and after the Engagement on the Heights, August 27, 1776

New York and environs

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs
Call Number: G3804.N4 1775 .M6 1968 [Case D]
Publication Date: 1775
Batteries de West-point au haut de la Rivière d'york
Call Number: G3804.W5S3 1781 .B3 [Case D]
Plan of the city of New York
Call Number: G3804.N4 1789 .M3 1939 [Case D]
To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bart. : captain general and governour in chief, in & over the Province of New York & the territories depending thereon in America, chancellor & vice admiral of the same : this plan of the city of New York, is most humbly
Call Number: G3804.N4 1767 .R3 1967 [Case D]
Historic maps and views of New York
Call Number: G1254.N4 V5 2008 [reserve]
New Jersey Road Maps of the 18th century
Call Number: G3810 .P7

Other resources

Early American hurricanes, 1492-1870
Call Number: QC945 .L8

From Alexander Hamilton to The Royal Danish American Gazette, 6 September 1772
Hamilton's account of 1772 hurricane

Historical Atlas of the British Empire
Call Number: G1805 .D35 2006 [reference]
Atlas historique des migrations
Call Number: G1046.E27 C43 1994
People on the move : an atlas of migration
Call Number: G1046.E27 P46 2010

Caribbean Maps

An accurate map of the West Indies. : Drawn from the best authorities, assisted by the most approved modern maps and charts, and regulated by astronomical observations.
Call Number: G4390 1752 .B6 1979 [Case D]
Publication Date: 1752
The making of America. West Indies.
Call Number: G4900 1987 .N3 [Case D]
The Blathwayt atlas; a collection of 48 manuscript and printed maps of the 17th century relating to the British overseas empire in that era, brought together about 1683 for the use of the Lords of Trade and Plantations
Call Number: G1805 .B6 1970 (maps 33-36: Jamaica)
Partie de la mer du Nord, où se trouvent les grandes et petites isles Antilles, et les isles Lucayes
Call Number: G4900 1750 .R6 1979 [Case D]

Washington DC, Mid-atlantic and Chesapeake

Washington, DC

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "estab
Call Number: G3850 1791 .L4 1991 [text + Case B]
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 MDCCC
Call Number: G3850 1792 .P5 1921 [Case B]
Plan of the city of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia : ceded by the sttes of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America
Call Number: G3850 1792 .E5 1972 [Case D]
A map of the city of Washington in the District of Columbia established as the permanent seat of the government of the United States of America taken from actual survey as laid out on the ground by Rt. King
Call Number: G3850 1818 .K5 1971 [Case D]
Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "estab
Call Number: G3850 1791 .L46 1991 [Case B]

Philadelphia

To Thomas Mifflin, Governor and Commander in Chief of the State of Pennsylvania this plan of the city and suburbs of Philadelphia is respectfully inscribed by the editor. A. P. Folie, del. R. Scot & S. Allardice, sculpsit.
Call Number: G3824.P5 1794 .F6 1973 [Case D]
A plan of the city of Philadelphia, the capital of Pennsylvania, from an actual survey. P. Andre, sculp.
Call Number: G3824.P5 1776 .E2 1976 [Case D]
Plan de la Ville de Philladelphie determinée en 1683 par Guille. Penn, entre les Rivieres de la Delaware, et du Scouyl Kill, ajant 2 mille de long sur 1 de large : Levé en 1794
Call Number: G3824.P5 1794 .H6 1984 [Case D]
To the mayor, Recorder Aldermen, Common Council and Freemen of Philadelphia, this plan of the improved part of the city surveyed and laid down.
Call Number: G3824.P5 1762 .S3 1969 [Case D]

Canada

A new chart of the coast of New England, Nova Scotia, New France or Canada, with the islands of Newfoundld., Cape Breton, St. John's &c. Done from the original publish'd in 1744
Call Number: G3400 1746 .J4a [Case D]
A map of America, between latitudes 40 and 70 North and longitudes 45 and 180 West, exhibiting Mackenzie's Track from Montreal to Fort Chipewyan & from thence to the North Sea in 1789 & to the West Pacific Ocean in 1793
Call Number: G3400 1793 .M3a [Case D]
A map of the province of Upper Canada : describing the new settlements, townships &c. with the counties adjacent from Québec to Lake Huron
Call Number: G3400 1813 .F3 1978 [Case D]

United States

The United States of North America : with the British & Spanish territories according to the Treaty
Call Number: G3700 1783 .F3 1974 [Case D]
The United States of America with the British possessions of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland divided with the French : also the Spanish territories of Louisiana and Florida.
Call Number: G3700 1794 .R6 1966 [Case D]
A new and correct map of the United States of North America layd down from the latest observations and best authorities, agreeable to the Peace of 1783.
Call Number: G3700 1784 .B81 1938 [Case D]

Africa

Map of the Gold Coast to accompany Dr. Madden's report
Call Number: G8850 1842 .G7 1978 [NRLF]
Sierra Leone and the adjoining coasts : to accompany Dr. Madden's report
Call Number: G8860 1842 .G7 1978 [NRLF]
Diagram to illustrate the progress of the delimitation of British frontiers in Africa
Call Number: G8201.F33 1913 .G7 [Case D]
Linguistic families of Africa
Call Number: G8201.E3 1950 .G7 [Case D]

Bibliography

American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker
Call Number: E447 .A67 1963
Publication Date: 1963
Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative by Vincent Brown
Choosing sides : loyalists in revolutionary America by Ruma Chopra
Publication Date: 2013
Water from the rock : Black resistance in a revolutionary age by Sylvia R. Frey
Publication Date: 1991
Black patriots and loyalists : fighting for emancipation in the war for independence by Alan Gilbert
Publication Date: 2012
The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
Publication Date: 2014
Liberty's exiles : American loyalists in the revolutionary world by Maya Jasanoff
Publication Date: 2011
New York burning : liberty, slavery, and conspiracy in eighteenth-century Manhattan by Jill Lepore
Publication Date: 2006
The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution by Gary Nash
Publication Date: 2006
The Negro in the American Revolution by Benjamin Quarles
Publication Date: 1961
The many-headed hydra : sailors, slaves, commoners, and the hidden story of the revolutionary Atlantic by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh
Publication Date: 2000
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities by Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Publication Date: 2013
Black majority : negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood
Publication Date: 1996

American Revolution

Atlas of the American Revolution
Call Number: f G1201.S3 N4 1974
The Theatre of war in North America, / with the road and tables, of the superficial contents, distances, &ca. by an American
Call Number: G3300 1776 .T5 1976 [Case D]
The American Revolution, 1775-1783: an atlas of 18th century maps and charts; theatres of operation
Call Number: G1201.S3 .U5 [Case D]
The Theatre of war in North America, with the road and tables, of the superficial contents, distances, &ca. by an American.
Call Number: G3300 1776 .T5 1976 [Case D]
Atlas of American History
Call Number: G1201.S1 A8 1984
A book of old maps, delineating American history from the earliest days down to the close of the revolutionary war
Call Number: f GA401 .F5 1926 [NRLF]
Campaigns of the American Revolution : an atlas of manuscript maps
Call Number: f G1201.S3 .M3 1976
Battle maps and charts of the American Revolution, with explanatory notes and school history references
Call Number: f G1201.S3 .C3 1974