The Colonial Plantations of George Mason
- by Robert Morgan Moxham
Robert Brooke's Map of the Potomac River, 1737
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Figure 3. "A Plan of Patomack River, from the mouth of Sherrendo, down to Chapawamsick, Surveryed in the year 1737"
A portion of Brooke’s map showing Mason Neck in 1737. The landmarks which he identifies are listed below, with his terminology and spelling retained:
- 46 the mouth of Pohick and Accotink Creeks
- 47 Mr. Brenauds
- 48 Mrs. Cofer
- 49 Crane Island
- 50 Mr. Catesby Cock
- 51 Col. Masons fish house
- 52 Mr. James Baxter
- 54 Doge Island once an indian habitation in Occoquan Bay now little left of it
- 55 High Point
Reproduced by permission of Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md.
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