| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8167 |  | Details | Gavit, John E. | 1850 |
| Vermont, New York and Canada - Gavit's Reduction of Bernard Romans's Revolutionary War Map |
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Gavit, John E. |
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| 1850 |
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| $150.00 | Gavit--John-E- | Vermont--New-York-and-Canada---Gavit-s-Reduction-of-Bernard-Romans-s-Revolutionary-War-Map | Circa 1850 reduced edition of Bernard Romans's 1778 map of the northern Revolutionary War theater, engraved and printed by John E. Gavit of Albany. The map covers Vermont, eastern and northern New York, portions of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and adjoining Canada. Its unusual orientation places north toward the lower left, with Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River across the lower portion of the sheet.<br><br>
Townships, land grants, patents, rivers, settlements and forts fill the map, documenting both the region's geography and competing claims to its lands. Lake Champlain and the Hudson River form a central corridor, while the Adirondack interior bears the name "Coughsagrage," or the Dismal Wilderness. Large tracts and named purchases contrast with the closely divided townships farther east.<br><br>
The prominent designation "State of Vermont" preserves a defining feature of Romans's original, recognized as the first printed map to name Vermont as a state. A lengthy note at upper left defends Vermont settlers' land titles and condemns conflicting New York grants, making the map a political statement as well as a geographical record.<br><br>
The lower margin identifies this edition as reduced from an original held in the Office of the State Engineer and Surveyor. An informative nineteenth-century rendering of an important Revolutionary-era map. |