Map Sources

See 1777 map of Winchester

See 1890 map of Winchester

Great topo map for reference on the contour of this land

Historical County Boundaries of all Colonies and States

Historical VA county map

https://digital.newberry.org/ahcb/pages/Virginia.html

How big was Virginia?

https://jimmoyer1.wixsite.com/fortloudounva/single-post/how-big-was-virginia

Historical marker VA map

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&mid=1zdjsHUoHVPLDr77XlKJbiVtLd0s&ll=37.31710543581329%2C-78.89829140625&z=8

Historical County Boundaries of all States

Interactive map of counties of all of the states

https://digital.newberry.org/ahcb/

Interactive map of counties in both WV and VA

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/countyformations/virginiaformationmaps.html

FRY-JEFFERSON MAPS

Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson Maps

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C+thomas%7Ccontributor%3Afry%2C+joshua

Thomas Jefferys Maps

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C+thomas

Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson Maps

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C+thomas%7Ccontributor%3Afry%2C+joshua

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3880.ct000370/

Whereas Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson compiled the map from many sources, you could say that Thomas Jefferys was the Producer of this map and shepherded the revisions to it.

Joshua Fry (1699? to May 31, 1754?)

Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757)

Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719 – 1771)

FRY-JEFFERSON INFO

This map of Virginia, commissioned in 1750 by acting governor Lewis Burwell.

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Who was Lewis Burwell?

Lewis Burwell (1711-1756) was President of Council, and acting Governor of Virginia from November 21, 1750–November 21, 1751, until Robert Dinwiddie, Lt Gov took over as acting Governor for the absent, Lord Loudoun, Gov of VA.

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Map made by who?

Known as the Fry-Jefferson map, it was prepared by surveyors and cartographers Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson).

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Map dedicated to who?

The map was dedicated to George Montague-Dunk, second earl of Halifax, president of the Board of Trade, and the other commissioners who served with him.

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Halifax had sought information on the status of the English colony and, in response, Burwell selected Fry and Jefferson to draw a map of the region.

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Thomas Jefferys’ Map Revisions

Click on images to enlarge.

Engraved and printed by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the Prince of Wales, the map was first published late in the summer of 1753.

The edition shown here is 1755. See the Ohio Store at Willis Creek where Fort Cumberland is built in June and July 1755 during the Braddock Expedition.

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The edition shown here was published in 1755, showing more of eastern region to show Ashby’s Gap, the same Captain John “Jack Ashby of the Fort Ashby built in 1755. Although this map had many revisions of the 1751 map, the revisions don’t include the 1755 Fort Ashby.

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The elaborate cartouche, which depicts a tobacco planter conducting business on a wharf, was designed by artist Francis Hayman.

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Original Author: Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, cartographers; Thomas Jefferys, engraver and printer; cartouche designed by Francis Hayman

Created: Drawn 1751; first published 1753; this edition published 1755

Medium: Engraved map with outline color and watercolor

Courtesy of Library of Virginia

Featured In

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/media_player?mets_filename=evm00002619mets.xml

Thomas Jefferys Maps

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C+thomas

1754 Map of China in this list

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/browse/creator_id/113

Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson Maps

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C+thomas%7Ccontributor%3Afry%2C+joshua

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3880.ct000370/

In 1751 Fry and Jefferson delivered a draft of the map to Burwell, who forwarded it to London with a description of Virginia’s boundaries and back settlements, compiled by Fry, and a brief account of the travels of John Peter Salley, a German man living in Augusta County. The Board of Trade paid Jefferson and Fry £150 each, and their work became the property of the English government.

In 1754 Jefferys reworked the map’s western plates to include information provided by the surveyor and explorer Christopher Gist, whom Fry had met on an expedition to the forks of the Ohio River in 1752. Gist’s contributions are noted in the legend printed on the map’s subsequent states. Lake Erie was deleted, and several rivers were extended, altered, or deleted and replaced by Gist’s data on the correct course of the Ohio, Kanawha, and New rivers and the French settlement along the Pennsylvania frontier. How Jefferys received this information is puzzling to scholars: Fry may have added information from Gist’s surveys to his own manuscript map during the time the two were together in Pennsylvania, or Fry may have sent Gist’s journal and parchment map directly to Jefferys. It is plausible that Captain John Dalrymple, Fry’s quartermaster during the western Pennsylvania expedition, carried this information to Jefferys when he returned to London in 1754.

In the second state of the map, published in 1754, new mountains were added; the eastern section was augmented by the addition of roads, including the Great Wagon Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia, and the names of several towns and ordinaries. The word “most” was added to the title and a table of distances supplied by Dalrymple was added to the map itself.

Jefferys made additional geographical changes to A Map of the Most Inhabited Parts of Virginia, which are reflected in the third and fourth states published in 1755. He computed the longitude west from London for each degree indicated on the map and these were added to the plate in the appropriate places both top and bottom. The third state is easily recognized from other editions by incorrect longitude degree marks inside the upper and lower borders. The longitude degree marks were reworked in the fourth state, and this is the last state in which any geographical changes were made. Any changes made to the plates after 1755 reflect changes in their ownership.

In 1768 the Fry-Jefferson map began to be sold in atlases, such as the two that Jefferys published, A General Topography of North America and the West Indies (1768) and The American Atlas (1775), and William Faden’s two volumes, The North American Atlas (1777) and The General Atlas of the Four Grand Quarters of the World. The map was translated into French by two different French publishers, was copied by innumerable publishers, and was a major resource for cartographers such as John Henry, who mapped Virginia counties in his New and Accurate Map of Virginia (1770); Lewis Evans, who drew A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America (1755); and John Mitchell, author of A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America (1755), which was used to determine the boundaries of the United States as set by the Treaty of Paris (1783) after the American Revolution (1765–1783).

Time Line

May 1731 – In response to several requests from the Board of Trade for a map of Virginia, Lieutenant Governor William Gooch sends members a poorly detailed manuscript map of the colony. Attempts to create a better map do not draw enough funding from the Board.
1738 – Land surveyors Joshua Fry and Robert Brooke unsuccessfully petition the House of Burgesses to create a new and better map of the Virginia colony.
September 1744 – The House of Burgesses rejects for the last time the petition by surveyors Joshua Fry and Robert Brooke to create a better, more detailed map of Virginia.
January 15, 1750 – Prompted by territorial disputes with the French, the Board of Trade requests a map of Virginia.
1751 – Lewis Burwell, acting governor of Virginia, appoints well-known land surveyors Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson to create a map of the colony for the Board of Trade.
August 1751 – Acting Governor Lewis Burwell forwards the map of Virginia drafted by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, along with a brief account of the travels of Augusta County resident John Peter Salley, to the Board of Trade in London.
March 1752 – The Fry-Jefferson map is presented to the commissioners of the Board of Trade and Plantations in London.
Summer 1753 – Thomas Jefferys, a publisher, engraver, and geographer to the Prince of Wales, publishes the first edition of the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, entitled A Map of the Inhabited Part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland, with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina.
1754 – Thomas Jefferys publishes the second edition of the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, now titled A Map of the Most Inhabited Parts of Virginia … This state of the map contains major revisions, the most significant being the corrected course of the Ohio River, based on information provided by surveyor and explorer Christopher Gist.
1755 – Thomas Jefferys publishes the third and fourth states, or editions, of the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia. These are the last iterations of the map to be published with geographical changes.
1775 – The sixth edition of the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia is published; in this state, or edition, the publication date in the cartouche, a decorative element containing the map’s title, is changed from 1751 to 1775.
ca. 1794 – The firm of Laurie and Whittle publishes the eighth and last-known state of the Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia.

Cite This Entry

APA Citation:Farrell, C. B. Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia. (2012, January 18). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Fry-Jefferson_Map_of_Virginia.
MLA Citation:Farrell, Cassandra Britt. “Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia.” Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 18 Jan. 2012. Web. 26 Oct. 2017.

First published: August 2, 2011 | Last modified: January 18, 2012

Contributed by Cassandra Britt Farrell, map specialist and senior research archivist at the Library of Virginia.

Source:

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Fry-Jefferson_Map_of_Virginia#start_entry

Overview of the map and people involved:

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/fry-jefferson/fry-jeffersonMap.asp

List of Colonial Governors of VA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_Virginia

https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Governors_of_Virginia

South Carolina

See maps of developing South Carolina

https://www.carolana.com/SC/Royal_Colony/sc_royal_colony_counties_parishes_1750.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Charleston,_South_Carolina

https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/charles-towns-growing-pains

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS (LOC) MAPS

https://www.loc.gov/maps/?fa=contributor%3Ajefferys%2C%20thomas&fbclid=IwAR2tKGaVdx77FK3U58uSbp1o94h3EyxNqNxeJ9SprJbLcZOnsvFxekBtXZg

Map Sources

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See 1777 map of Winchester

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See 1890 map of Winchester

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Great topo map for reference on the contour of this land

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Historical County Boundaries of all Colonies and States

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Historical VA county map

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Historical marker VA map

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Historical County Boundaries of all States

Interactive map of counties of all of the states

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Interactive map of counties in both WV and VA

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FRY-JEFFERSON MAPS

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Thomas Jefferys Maps

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Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson Maps

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Whereas Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson compiled the map from many sources, you could say that Thomas Jefferys was the Producer of this map and shepherded the revisions to it.

FRY-JEFFERSON INFO

This map of Virginia, commissioned in 1750 by acting governor Lewis Burwell.

.

Who was Lewis Burwell?

Lewis Burwell (1711-1756) was President of Council, and acting Governor of Virginia from November 21, 1750–November 21, 1751, until Robert Dinwiddie, Lt Gov took over as acting Governor for the absent, Lord Loudoun, Gov of VA.

.

Map made by who?

Known as the Fry-Jefferson map, it was prepared by surveyors and cartographers Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson).

.

Map dedicated to who?

The map was dedicated to George Montague-Dunk, second earl of Halifax, president of the Board of Trade, and the other commissioners who served with him.

.

Halifax had sought information on the status of the English colony and, in response, Burwell selected Fry and Jefferson to draw a map of the region.

.

Thomas Jefferys’ Map Revisions

Click on images to enlarge.

Engraved and printed by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the Prince of Wales, the map was first published late in the summer of 1753.

The edition shown here is 1755. See the Ohio Store at Willis Creek where Fort Cumberland is built in June and July 1755 during the Braddock Expedition.

.

The edition shown here was published in 1755, showing more of eastern region to show Ashby’s Gap, the same Captain John “Jack Ashby of the Fort Ashby built in 1755. Although this map had many revisions of the 1751 map, the revisions don’t include the 1755 Fort Ashby.

.

The elaborate cartouche, which depicts a tobacco planter conducting business on a wharf, was designed by artist Francis Hayman.

.

Original Author: Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, cartographers; Thomas Jefferys, engraver and printer; cartouche designed by Francis Hayman

Created: Drawn 1751; first published 1753; this edition published 1755

Medium: Engraved map with outline color and watercolor

Courtesy of Library of Virginia

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Thomas Jefferys Maps

1754 Map of China in this list

Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson Maps

Time Line

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Cite This Entry

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Overview of the map and people involved:

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