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This map of Pennsylvania is one in a series of 16 maps which were prepared by Katherine W. Ewing, Nashville, TN, in 1968 and published by Precision Prints in 1974. The series is titled "Complete Maps of The Thirteen Original Colonies as well as Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee".
The maps are being sold individually rather than all together as a series as they were originally published.
Each map is printed on fine quality, 12 x 18", cardstock paper; and is marked, in the lower left corner, "Researched, Drawn, Inked and Painted by Katherine W. Ewing"; and in the lower right corner, "(c) Precision Prints, Nashville, Tenn. 1974". The following information is printed on the back side of the folio cover.
Precision Prints, Nashville, Tennessee is pleased to present this volume as a service to students, historians, genealogical researchers, cartographers, bibliophiles and other segments of the public who may not be aware of, or have access to, the primary source of the book's contents.
Mrs. Albert Ewing, Jr. of Nashville, a professional genealogist of long standing, and has carefully traced all of the maps printed in the 1907-1908 publications by the United States Government Printing Office of the First Federal Census of those States whose 1790 schedules were not destroyed by fire during the War of 1812. Those maps had been taken from a now rare Atlas, published in 1796 by John Reid, New York City.
Inasmuch as the maps of the States whose censuses were LOST were yet available in the so-called "John Reid Atlas", photostatic copies were secured from the Library of Congress in Washington where several original Reid Atlases are preserved. All of the maps in this book are taken from that Atlas, with the exception of that of the State of Kentucky, which is by J. Russell and was published in 1794 in London. The States of Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee, though not among the Thirteen Original Colonies, are included so that the Colonial Eastern Seaboard and all States of our Union through 1796 would be incorporated in a single map portfolio.
This series traces the Migration Routes of the restless, peripatetic settlers, not merely in a broad pattern, but also on the actual roads, paths and trails they travelled and the streams they sailed from one Colony or State to another, or as families and communities drifted in a movement general toward the West.
It is interesting to note that, of the several "Sculptors" and/or "Delineators" of the sixteen maps, Benjamin Tanner (1775-1848, Engraver) signed eight maps; D. Martin, three; _____ Roberts, one; J. Russell,.one. Three maps are unsigned. The minutiae of detail delineated by these men are variously instructive, amusing, quaint - a Mirror to the Past.
The tracings of these maps were transfered to illustration board, inked and painted by the artist in 1968, during months of painstaking study, research and execution, with the aim that the results now published would be of value and benefit to all who might appreciate the efforts of the hardy surveyors and chain-carriers who made the initial plats; the "Sculptors" who laboriously engraved the plates; and lastly, the worthy Messrs. Reid and WINTERBOTHAM. It was the former who had the foresight in 1796 to publish "AN HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, COMMERCIAL AND Philosophical HISTORY of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" (in Four Volumes, WITH ATLAS), compiled by WILLIAM WINTERBOTHAM.
Our gratitude to all of those men for their courage, talents and acumen, which, together with the present-day reproductions of their endeavors, combine to make this slender volume possible.
Also included with the series is a photocopied sheet, written in Mrs. Ewing's own hand writing, in which she offers some of the more interesting thoughts she had about each state as she prepared the maps. The introductory paragraph and her comments about this particular state are copied for you below.
At the request of the Publishers, I have jotted down some of the interesting, unexpected little items encountered, or thoughts coming to mind, as I traced, inked and painted, although first, foremost and always my concern was with the ROADS. I observed their fingers reaching out from the maze-like convergings on the East Coast, into the Hinterland, where they felt their way thru the Gaps and Passes of the Cumberland, Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain chains. Here then are my notes on the maps ...
PENNSYLVANIA, a gorgeous State, busiest with roads on the Southern border, less crowded to the West and scarce to the North, all executed by an unknown engraver who nevertheless inserted a 23-mile portage in Northumberland County and drew his mountain range to resemble little marching ticks, their ranks bisected by the broad Susquahanna. As I worked on the roads near Philadelphia, I thought of the strong draught horses pulling the vehicles of the Stage Coach Line (established and maintained in the late 1790's by some of my family connections) over the roads from Philadelphia to New York City and back. The trip required three days each way - so fast for that period that the Line was called Barnhill's Flying Machine". I wonder whether our unknown "Sculptor" had occasion to travel via the Flying Machine.
Mrs. Ewing's handwritten note in the margin of the map states: " Tracing of a map in "Heads of Families - 1790 Census ( U. S. Gov't Printing Office, Washington 1908) drawn and tinted July 1968 by Katherine W. Ewing (Mrs. Albert, Jr.), Nashville, Tennessee."
The number "2" is inked in black, at the paper's edge; it notes New York's order of ratification of the Federal Constitution and admission to the Union.
CONDITION: Very good. Some may consider it Near Mint. It is clean and bright all over with no markings, soiling, tears or creases. The only flaw is a slight warp to the paper in one corner, although there is no sign of moisture damage and no odor. I've had these for quite a while; they've been stored in a climate control, non-smoking environment.
The map will be shipped flat, in a flattened Priority Mail box.
I have a few remaining maps from the series, either listed in current auctions or in my eBay store (Category: Paper & Ephemera - Maps). There will be no additional S&H charge for additional maps purchased.
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