A Map of New-England, Being the First That Ever Was Here Cut, and Done by the Best Pattern That Could Be Had, Which Being in Some Places Defective, It Made the Other Less Exact ; yet Doth It Sufficiently Shew the Scituation of the Countrey, and Conveniently Well the Distance of Places
Item
Title
A Map of New-England, Being the First That Ever Was Here Cut, and Done by the Best Pattern That Could Be Had, Which Being in Some Places Defective, It Made the Other Less Exact ; yet Doth It Sufficiently Shew the Scituation of the Countrey, and Conveniently Well the Distance of Places
Description
From Leventhal: This map was the first to be printed in the British Colonies, and though crude in appearance was for its time the best available map of the region. Based on a 1665 survey by Bostonian William Reed, it was repurposed by Foster to illustrate William Hubbard’s Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England. The Narrative described King Philip’s War of 1675-76, a horrific conflict between New England colonists and Algonquin Indians. By war’s end the native population had been decimated and dozens of colonial towns (shown numbered on this map) ravaged.
Ruler
Weetamoo
Continent
Americas
Date
1677
Century
17th century
Decade
1670s
Creator
John Foster
Type
Map
Link to item
short title
A Map of New-England
Rights and Reproduction
Repository
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection
Boston Public Library
