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19 de abr. de 2022 · Created by two of the colony’s most accomplished surveyors, Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson, A Map of the Inhabited Part of Virginia containing the whole Province of Maryland, with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina included their completed border survey for the western bounds of the Northern Neck and a portion of ...
Scale ca. 1:650,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Philadelphia and Curratuck Inlet. Relief shown pictorially. "To the Right Honourable, George Dunk Earl of Halifax ..." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1428 Includes distance chart added by "J. Dalrymple, London Jany. ye. 1st. 1755." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2
Regardless of filial pride, the Fry-Jefferson map was the most accurate record of Virginia in the eighteenth century, and Jefferson used it as the basis for the map he compiled for Notes on the State of Virginia. [2] Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson were commissioned to draw a map of Virginia by the acting Virginia governor, Lewis Burwell, in 1750.
Peter Field Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father of the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The "Fry-Jefferson Map", created by Peter in collaboration with Joshua Fry in 1757, accurately charted the ...
- Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia
- Jane Randolph (m. 1739)
When the Board of Trade and Plantations requested information concerning activities on the frontier, Lewis Burwell, acting governor of Virginia, commissioned Colonel Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson to prepare a map of the colony.
He was the son of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1677-1731) and Mary Field Jefferson (d. 1715). The family lived near Richmond “at the place in Chesterfield called Ozborne’s, and owned the lands afterward the glebe of the parish.”. Peter, the third son and fourth of six children, was born at Osbornes, a settlement on the James River, on February 29 ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · In the late 1740s, Peter Jefferson and Joshua Fry together surveyed the colony of Virginia and in 1751 published a map of their surveys, which became the standard reference map of Virginia for almost 50 years.
