File:Cape May, New Jersey 1777.jpg

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English: The Province of New Jersey, divided into East and West, commonly called the Jerseys. Engraved & published by Wm. Faden.
Artist
Engraved by
William Faden  (1749–1836)  wikidata:Q8008902
 
Alternative names
Faden & Jefferys
Description British cartographer and publisher
Date of birth/death circa 1750
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
21 March 1836 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Shepperton
Work location
From 1771: "Geographer to the King and to the Prince of Wales"
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q8008902
Survey by
Bernard Ratzer  (1700–)  wikidata:Q4893571
 
Alternative names
Bernard Ratzen
Description British cartographer and surveyor
Date of birth 1700 Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1756–84
Work location
New York region
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4893571
Title
English: The Province of New Jersey, divided into East and West, commonly called the Jerseys. Engraved & published by Wm. Faden.
Description
English: Detail of a 1777 map depicting Cape May County, New Jersey. The area shown was the scene of military activity, the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, early in the American Revolutionary War.
Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Notes

Shows county boundaries and "Division line run in 1743 between East New Jersey and West New Jersey."

"This map has been drawn from the survey made in 1769 ... by Bernard Ratzer ... and from another large survey of the northern parts ... by Gerard Banker."

Appears in William Faden's The North American atlas. 1777.

Reference: LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1238
Source/Photographer
This map is available from the United States Library of Congress's Geography & Map Division
under the digital ID g3810.ct000079.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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