MAP #: 302MA.06

CARTOGRAPHER : MOORE, S.S. & JONES, T.W.

DATE: 1802

SHORT TITLE : ROAD FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WASHINGTON [STRIP MAP 16]

REMAINING TITLE & ID : (BELOW MAP ACROSS THE PAGE). "16." (ABOVE MAP). "SHALLUS SCULP." (BELOW AND ON RIGHT OF THE MAP). FOUR POINTED COMPASS ROSE (ORIENTED WITH WEST AT THE TOP, BOTTOM OF THE MAP). LONGITUDE AND LATITUDE (NOT SHOWN).

THIS IS THE SECOND AMERICAN ROAD MAP DIRECTORY AND THE FIRST TO APPEAR AFTER THE COLLES BOOK IN 1789. UNLIKE THE COLLES WORK, THIS BOOK APPARENTLY WAS A FINANCIAL SUCCESS. IT CONTAINS SOME 38 STRIP MAPS ON 22 LEAVES AND FIFTY TWO PAGES OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT.

CAREY'S BOOK COVERED THE MOST HEAVILY TRAVELLED AREA IN THE U.S. - FROM NEW YORK TO WASHINGTON, WHICH HAD BECOME THE CAPITAL OF THE COUNTRY IN 1800. FIFTEEN STRIP MAPS COVER THE AREA FROM THE DELAWARE BORDER TO WASHINGTON, IN ADDITION TO A PLAN OF BALTIMORE AND ONE OF WASHINGTON.

SNYDER NOTES THAT CAREY'S MAPS WERE BETTER ENGRAVED THAN COLLES AND THAT THE ADDITION OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT WAS AN INNOVATION.

THE MAP DESCRIBED HEREIN COVERS FROM 3 MILES EAST OF BALTIMORE TO 1 MILE WEST OF THE CITY. IT INCLUDES A DIAGRAMMATIC LAYOUT OF THE CITY. THE TOPOGRAPHY, THE POINT-TO-POINT MILEAGE IN 1 MILE SEGMENTS, RIVERS, CREEKS AND DESTINATION OF CROSSROADS ARE ALL SHOWN.

THE DESCRIPTIVE MATERIAL ON THIS MAP READS AS FOLLOWS:

"BALTIMORE IS DISTANT NINETY NINE MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA, SITUATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF PATAPSCO RIVER, AT A SMALL DISTANCE FROM THE CHESAPEAKE. THE ENTRANCE OF THE HARBOUR IS DEFENDED BY WHETSTONE FORT, NOW CALLED FORT M'HENRY. THE TOWN IS BUILT AROUND WHAT IS CALLED THE BASIN, ONE OF THE FINEST HARBORS IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS, BY JONES'S FALLS BRANCH: OVER WHICH ARE THREE WOODEN BRIDGES; THE WESTERN PART IS CALLED "THE TOWN," AND THE SOUTH-EASTERN PART "FELL'S POINT." SHIPS OF 500 TONS BURDEN CAN COME UP TO THE POINT; BUT ONLY SMALL VESSELS CAN COME UP HIGHER. THE SITUATION OF THIS CITY IS LOW, PARTICULARLY NEAR THE WATER SIDE. THE STREETS EXTEND EAST AND WEST ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THE BASIN; THESE ARE INTERSECTED BY OTHERS AT RIGHT ANGLES, EXCEPT A FEW. THE MAIN STREET, BALTIMORE STREET, IS EIGHTY FEET WIDE, AND ABOUT THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE IN LENGTH; IT IS HANDSOME AND WELL BUILT; OTHER STREETS ARE IMPROVING AND COMMODIOUS.

FELL'S POINT IS ALSO LAID OUT WITH REGULARITY, BUT INFERIOR IN POINT OF ELEGANCE TO BALTIMORE CITY.

BALTIMORE HAS MADE THE MOST RAPID PROGRESS OF ANY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ITS SITUATION FOR COMMERCE RENDERS IT LITTLE INFERIOR IN RESPECTABILITY TO ANY. THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS ARE, A BRICK COURT HOUSE, ERECTED ON AN ARCH, IN THE CENTRE OF CALVERT STREET, A JAIL NOT FAR FROM THE COURT HOUSE, THREE MARKETS, A POOR HOUSE, WHICH STANDS ON THE NORTH-WEST SIDE OF THE TOWN, THE MARYLAND BANK, THE BRANCH BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE BANK OF BALTIMORE; AN EXCHANGE AND DRAMATIC THEATRE IN HOLLIDAY STREET; PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP ARE ONE FOR EPISCOPALIANS, ONE FOR PRESBYTERIANS IN EAST STREET, (LATELY ERECTED, WITH TWO TOWERS, AND A HANDSOME PORTICO, SUPPORTED BY SIX PILLARS: IT IS WELL FINISHED, AND IS ONE OF THE MOST ELEGANT CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES) THREE FOR GERMANS, ONE FOR QUAKERS, ONE FOR ROMAN CATHOLICS, ONE FOR NICOLITES, ONE FOR BAPTISTS, AND TWO FOR METHODISTS; ONE OF WHICH IS AT FELL'S POINT. THE INTERNAL POLICE OF THE CITY IS DIRECTED BY A BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, A BOARD OF SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS, AND A BOARD OF WARDENS.

PATAPSCO RIVER IS NEAR ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH MILE, ABOUT SEVEN AND A HALF FROM BALTIMORE.

THE FALLS, A LITTLE ABOVE THIS PLACE STOP THE NAVIGATION.
THE RATES OF FERRIAGE, AT THIS PLACE, ARE: Cts.
ALL FOUR WHEEL CARRIAGES, 27
DO. TWO DO. 20
MAN AND HORSE, 6
FOOT PASSENGER, 3
EACH PASSENGER, IN ANY CARRIAGE, EXCEPT THE DRIVER, 3"


MESSRS. MOORE AND JONES ARE LISTED BY MATHEW CAREY IN THE PREFACE TO THE TRAVELLER'S DIRECTORY AS "TWO RESPECTABLE AND QUALIFIED SURVEYORS", AND CAREY INDICATES THAT THEY HAVE REMEASURED THE MILE MARKERS AND FOUND THE MILE STONES IN SOME INSTANCES TO HAVE CONSIDERABLE VARIATION.

DATA IS FROM SNYDER, SABIN AND FROM THE BOOK IN WHICH THE MAPS APPEARED.

EDITION & STATE INFO : SABIN LISTS EDITIONS OF THE TRAVELLER'S DIRECTORY... ISSUED IN 1802 AND 1804, BUT WRITER HAS NOT SEEN THE 1804 EDITION AND DOES NOT YET KNOW IF THERE WERE ANY PLATE CHANGES.

HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS 8 X 10" PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS OF THE MAPS FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WASHINGTON IN THE 1802 EDITION.

BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : SABIN, J., A DICTIONARY OF BOOKS RELATING TO AMERICA, J. SABIN'S SON, NEW YORK, 1879, #50436 (NOTES BOTH THE 1802 AND THE 1804 EDITIONS); SNYDER, JOHN P., THE MAPPING OF NEW JERSEY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW BRUNSWICK, 1973, PP. 92-93; HOWES, M-778. July 14, 1988

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