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Mother Chick Tavern

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Description: The Mother Chick Tavern, where Nathan Hale, widely considered America's first spy during the American Revolutionary War, stopped the night before his captu...
Map or Atlas

Map of Part of the Schuylkill Valley

Date: 05 01 1899
Description: Map showing the Schuylkill River with roads, ferries, and points of interest from Valley Forge to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as it appeared during the Revo...
Map or Atlas

The Theatre of War in North America: With the Roads and a Table of the Distances

Date: 1776
Description: This was one of the first maps available for the general British populace featuring America during the Revolutionary War. It includes forts, cities, topogr...
Map or Atlas

The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish Territories According to the Treaty

Date: 1783
Description: This map is hand-colored and shows the boundaries of British, Spanish, and the newly recognized American claims, as well as the fishing rights granted to F...
Map or Atlas

The State of New York: Compiled from the Best Authorities

Date: 1795
Description: Detailed map of New York, showing counties, cities, mines, mills, roads, swamps, mountains, lakes and rivers. The map also shows Native American towns and ...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of New York Island, with Part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with a Particular Description of the Engagement on the Woody Heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th of August 1776

Date: 10 1776
Description: Broadside map showing the British invasion of New York city in August and September of 1776. The map shows important cities, forts, roads, hills, mountains...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the Command of General Sr. William Howe, K.B. in New York and East New Jersey

Date: 02 1777
Description: Map depicting the campaigns of October and November 1776, in Manhattan, Westchester, and part of New Jersey, published only a few months after the conclusi...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Date: 03 1777
Description: Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea...
Map or Atlas

Chart and Plan of the Harbour of New York & the County. Adjacent, from Sandy Hook to Kingsbridge: Comprehending the Whole of New York and Staten Islands, and Part of Long Isladn & the Jersey Shore

Date: 11 1781
Description: Map of New York, Staten Island, and Long Island, showing the placements of forts, and the movement of troops in 1776. The map also includes towns, cities, ...
Map or Atlas

A Map and Chart of Those Parts of the Bay of Chesapeak, York and James Rivers Which are at Present the Seat of War

Date: 1781
Description: Map of the southern portion of the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding lands. It shows counties, a few cities and towns, forts, roads, islands, topographical fe...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Province of West Florida

Date: 1781
Description: Map of the British territory of West Florida, extending from the Mississippi River to the Apalachicola River. It shows the borders, cities, towns, forts, h...

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