MAP #: 302MA.04
CARTOGRAPHER : MOORE, S.S. & JONES, T.W.
DATE: 1802
SHORT TITLE : ROAD FROM PHILADELPHIA TO WASHINGTON [STRIP MAPS 13 & 14]
REMAINING TITLE & ID : (BELOW STRIP MAPS, ACROSS PAGE). "13" (ABOVE LEFT HAND MAP). "14" (ABOVE RIGHT HAND MAP). "W HARRISON Jr. Sc." (BELOW AND ON RIGHT OF STRIP MAP #13). FOUR POINTED COMPASS ROSE (ORIENTED WITH SOUTHWEST AT THE TOP, CENTER OF STRIP MAP #13, NONE SHOWN FOR STRIP MAP #14 BUT APPARENTLY ORIENTED WITH SOUTHWEST AT THE TOP). 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 MAPS DESCRIBED HEREIN COVER FROM 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF ABINGDON IN HARFORD COUNTY TO 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF THE CENTER BRANCH OF SALTPETRE CREEK IN BALTIMORE COUNTY. THEY WERE ENGRAVED BY W. HARRISON, JR. AND ARE ORIENTED WITH SOUTHWEST AT THE TOP. THE TOPOGRAPHY, THE POINT-TO-POINT MILEAGE LAID OUT IN 1 MILE SEGMENTS, THE NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF SEVERAL HOUSES, SHOPS AND MILLS AND THE DESTINATION OF CROSSROADS ARE ALL SHOWN.
THE DESCRIPTIVE MATERIAL ON THESE TWO STRIP MAPS READS AS FOLLOWS:
LITTLE GUNPOWDER RIVER IS AT EIGHTY-TWO MILES AND A QUARTER FROM PHILADELPHIA, ON CROSSING WHICH THE TRAVELLER ENTERS BALTIMORE COUNTY, BOUNDED NORTH BY PENNSYLVANIA, ON THE EAST BY HARFORD COUNTY, ON THE SOUTH BY CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ANN ARUNDEL COUNTY, AND ON THE WEST BY FREDERICK COUNTY. THIS COUNTRY ABOUNDS WITH IRON WORKS. COAL MINES HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKED TO SOME ADVANTAGE. THE SOIL, IN MANY PARTS, APPEARS NOT OF THE BEST QUALAITY.
GREAT GUNPOWDER RIVER IS AT EIGHTY-THREE MILES AND A HALF FROM PHILADELPHIA; ON EACH OF THE BRANCHES OF THIS RIVER, ARE SEVERAL EXCELLENT MILLS. BETWEEN THIS AND BUSH RIVER IS GUNPOWDER NECK, SO NAMED FROM A TRADITION, THAT THE INDIANS, WHO FORMERLY LIVED ON THIS TRACT, WHEN FIRST ACQUAINTED WITH THE USE OF GUNPOWDER, SUPPOSED IT TO BE A VEGETABLE SEED; THEY PURCHASED A QUANTITY, AND SOWED IT, ON THIS NECK, EXPECTING IT TO PRODUCE A GOOD CROP.
RATES OF FERRIAGE OVER THIS RIVER:
Cts.
CARRIAGE AND FOUR HORSES, 25
DO. TWO DO. 18
DO. ONE DO. 12 1/2
MAN AND HORSE, 6"
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 13, 1988
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