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1799 John Payne Map of the Chesapeake Bay : Maryland and Delaware.
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Title
The States of Maryland and Delaware from the latest surveys. 1799.
1799 (dated) 8 x 9.5 in (20.32 x 24.13 cm) 1 : 1400000
1799 (dated) 8 x 9.5 in (20.32 x 24.13 cm) 1 : 1400000
Description
This is a 1799 John Payne map of Maryland and Delaware. The map depicts the Chesapeake Bay region from Fort Cumberland on the Potomac River to Delaware Bay and New Jersey and from Philadelphia to Watkins Point. An inset map tracks the Potomac even further west from Fort Cumberland. The map includes several rivers aside from the Potomac, such as the Susquehanna and Delaware as well as innumerable tributaries. Roads and cities are depicted, including Washington, D.C. The map also labels the counties in the area.
This example was engraved by John Anderson and John Scoles. It was published in John Payne's New Encyclopaedia by John Low of New York.
This example was engraved by John Anderson and John Scoles. It was published in John Payne's New Encyclopaedia by John Low of New York.
Cartographer
John Payne (fl. c. 1780 - c. 1800) was a little known cartographer and map publisher working in New York and Philadelphia in the last years of the 18th century. Nothing is known of his youth and education. He is known to have published Joseph Collyer's 1772 New System of Geography in London, and his own work is probably descended from Collyer's. Payne published, again in London, his two-volume Universal geography formed into a new and entire system in 1791. Dublin editions under this title appeared in 1792 and 1794, lacking maps and reducing the general geography to a glossary to make room travellers' tales, notably those of Hawkesworth: it is probably that Payne had nothing to do with the Dublin editions, which were almost certainly pirate editions. Sometime during the 1790s Payne emigrated to New York, where he would publish in 1798-9 Payne's New and Complete Universal Geography, one of the first examples of American - printed commercial cartography. More by this mapmaker...
Source
Payne, J., A New and Complete System of Universal Geography (New York: Low), 1798-1800.
Condition
Very good. Remargined with some repaired loss. Light water stain on left side.
References
Wheat, J.C., and Brun, C. F., Maps and Charts Published in America before 1800; a Bibliography,519.