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From: Ronald Whitaker <>
Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] 1751 Jefferson Map
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:21:02 -0500
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Myrna: Well-stated! Thanks. Ron



Myrna Madigan wrote:

>Hi Folks --
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>Here's another attempt to explain how to get to this wonderful map. Everyone needs it because it was drawn and published in the early 1750s, it shows the entire Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the Forks of the Yadkin, Anson County, plus the Shenandoah, Blue Ridge and other ridges and valleys. It shows "Opekon" Creek where the Bryans and Boones started from on their migration to North Carolina. It shows all of Maryland, parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. It shows the Borden and Beverly Manors with lots more plus the Granville grants in NC. It's the most incredible map of that period I've seen. Just play loose with place names because they may not be spelled the modern way and also remember that a written "f" sometimes means "s".
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>This is the link:
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>http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3880+ct000370))
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>If the entire link isn't on one line, underlined and in blue, it won't work for you. You do need the last two brackets, "370))".
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>Solution: Copy the entire link by highlighting it, right button click on your mouse, copy, move to the address window on your browser and copy it over whatever "http/www" address is showing there.
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>If you can't get this to work, follow the path:
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>Do a Google search for "Library of Congress American Memory"; should take you to the home page.
>Choose "Maps" in "Collections by Topic"; then go to "Search by Keywords", lower left corner.
>Copy the following and paste it in the "search descriptive information" box --
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>A Map of the Most Inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole
>Province of Maryland with Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North
>Carolina Drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751
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>Select "match all of these words" and hit the search button which will take you to the image of the map.
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>Click on the image of the map and go to the full map page. I couldn't find any way to change zoom factors except to put my "mouse dot" in a hole and then hit "enter". Doesn't seem to work any other way. The different zoom factors influence the size of the red square in the navigation map on the right. Click your mouse's pointing hand at the middle of wherever you want that square to show and the entire square will appear on the map on the left. Make it bigger or smaller, play with it. It's great.
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>Hope I haven't thoroughly confused you and many. many thanks to Betty for sharing this link.
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>Myrna Madigan
>Tuscola IL
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