MAP #: 280S5
CARTOGRAPHER : SKINNER, ANDREW [COPYIST]
DATE: 1780
SHORT TITLE : A MAP OF THE DELAWARE AND CHESAPEAK BAYS
REMAINING TITLE & ID : WITH THE PENINSULA BETWEEN THEM COPIED BY ANDREW SKINNER 1780 (RIGHT, BELOW CENTER). "SCALE OF BRITISH STATUTE MILES 69 TO A DEGREE" (BOTTOM CENTER). THE TOP LEFT CORNER OF THIS COLORED MANUSCRIPT MAP IS MISSING. "THE PROPOSED CANALS ARE DESCRIBED BY DOTTED LINES." (LEFT, BELOW CENTER).LONGITUDE (NOT YET LABELED, ALTHOUGH THE LINES ARE DRAWN IN). LATITUDE (RIGHT AND LEFT BORDERS).
IT IS NOT KNOWN WHY ANDREW SKINNER COPIED THIS CHURCHMAN MAP. THE SEVERAL PROPOSED ROUTES OF THE CHESAPEAKE-DELAWARE CANAL ARE SHOWN BY DOTTED LINES, SO THE MAP MAY HAVE HAD SOME CONNECTION WITH THAT DISPUTE. IT IS KNOWN THAT SKINNER WAS A SCOTTISH LAND SURVEYOR AND THAT HE AND GEORGE TAYLOR, ANOTHER SCOTTISH LAND SURVEYOR, WERE ASSOCIATED IN PUBLISHING ROAD BOOKS OF SCOTLAND, BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN 1775-8. AROUND 1780 THEY WERE EITHER RECRUITED OR VOLUNTEERED TO SERVE IN NORTH AMERICA. TAYLOR WAS COMMISSIONED AS CAPTAIN OF GUIDES AND SKINNER WAS A MEMBER OF HIS TEAM. THEIR SERVICE IN AMERICA LASTED LESS THAN A FULL YEAR. CONSEQUENTLY THE WORK OF COPYING THIS MAP MUST HAVE OCCURRED WHILE SKINNER WAS IN AMERICA.
DATA IS FROM GUTHORN, TOOLEY'S DICTIONARY, AND FROM OBSERVATION OF THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS MANUSCRIPT MAP IN THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION.
EDITION & STATE INFO : THIS IS A MANUSCRIPT MAP. IT APPARENTLY IS COPIED DIRECTLY, WITH ONE NOTABLE CHANGE AS INDICATED IN THE DESCRIPTION, FROM THE JOHN CHURCHMAN MAP OF 1778. SEE MAP # 278C5.
HFC OWNERSHIP DATA : THE HUNTINGFIELD COLLECTION HAS A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOREPRODUCTION OF THIS COLORED MANUSCRIPT MAP AT 2/3RDS OF FULL SIZE, WHICH WAS GIVEN IT BY THE CLEMENTS LIBRARY, OWNER OF THE ORIGINAL. IT HAS AN ACQ. # OF CL?-GIFT(REPRO) AND A MDHR # OF MSA SC1399-607(REPRO).
BIBLIGRAPHICAL REFS. : GUTHORN, PETER J., BRITISH MAPS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, MONMOUTH BEACH, N.J.: PHILIP FRENEAU PRESS, 1972, 42-43 (ANDREW SKINNER - 104/4) AND 46 (GEORGE TAYLOR); BRUN, CHRISTIAN, THE GUIDE TO MANUSCRIPT MAPS IN THE WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, ANN ARBOR: WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS LIBRARY, 1959, # 563; TOOLEY, R.V., TOOLEY'S DICTIONARY OF MAPMAKERS, TRING, HERTFORDSHIRE, MAP COLLECTOR PUBLICATIONS LTD., 1979, 583, 611. May 12, 1991
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