A map of the southern Indian district of North America.

Format:

Manuscript

Map/Atlas

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Joseph, cartographer.

Contributor:

Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library), owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southern States--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Indians of North America.

Southern States--Maps--Early works to 1800.

Southern States.

Genre:

Manuscript maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1775]

Summary:

Compiled under the direction of John Stuart, His Majesty's Superintendant of Indian Affairs, by Joseph Purcell. Shows North America east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio River. References identify 155 Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee villages. Includes notes on Indian land claims and cessions. Relief shown by hachures.

Notes:

A manuscript variant of the map is held by The National Archives in London, shelfmark CO 700/NorthAmericanColoniesGeneral12. Date of compilation, fuller description, and bibliographic references in: Cumming, William Patterson, The Southeast in early maps (3rd edition) (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp. 323-324, no. 438, and plates 68-71.

AM reference: VAULT oversize Ayer MS map 228

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.

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