The Colonial Plantations of George Mason
- by Robert Morgan Moxham
John Warner’s 1736-37 Map of the Northern Neck of Virginia
An excerpt from the c. 1747 edition, with annotations, c. 1752
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Figure 5. A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron, bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack: With the courses of the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia, as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737. [4th Edition, c. 1747]
John Warner prepared a map of the Northern Neck based upon surveys in 1736 and 1737. Here is shown a part of the 4th edition, dated 1747 or later, and annotated about 1752 by an unknown person. Mason's (IV) Dogue Neck plantation house is shown on the Potomac shoreline (arrow). The label, "Mason", in barely legible script, appears above the house symbol.
Credit Line: Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. The full map can be viewed online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3880.ct000362
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