Name/Title
NEW ENGLAND, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY AND PENSILVANIA (SIC)Entry/Object ID
PM.79.2Description
Map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania engraved and tinted: rectangular; "49" written in upper right corner outside platemark, "49" also written in upper right corner inside platemark; border marked with longitude (75 and 70) and latitude (45 and 40); map of "P. of North America" showing the Atlantic seaboard from Nova Scotia to halfway down Maryland; "Part of New Scotland" and New England outlined together in red, New York outlined in yellow, New Jersey and "Pensilvania" outlined in green and "Part of Maryland" outlined in yellow; towns marked, especially along coast and in New England; trees indicated for the interior of New York and Pennsylvania; to the right, fishing banks--Ieffrey's St. George's and Nantucket Shoales--in the "Western Ocean"; to the left center, printed in box: "New England,/New York,/New Jersey and/Pensilvania,/by H.Moll Geographer," below box, scale of "English miles" from 5 to 60; in the lower right corner: "An Account of yet Post of ye Continent of Nth America as they were regulated by ye Postmaster Genl of Post House. The Western Post sets out from Philadelphia every Fryday leaving Letters at Burlington and Perth Amboy and arrives at New York on Sunday night; the distance between Philadelphia and New York being 106 miles. The Post goes out Eastward every Monday morning from New York, and arrives at Seabrook Thursday noon; being 150 miles, where the Post from Boston setts out at the same time; the New York Post returning with the Eastern Letters, and the Boston Post with the Western. Bags are dropt at New London, Stommington, Rhode Island, and Bristol. The Post from Boston to Piscataway being 70 miles leaves letters at Ipswich, Salem, Marblehead, and Newberry. There are offices keept at Burlington, Perth Amboy in New Jersey, New London and Stommington in Connecticut, at Rhode Island, Bristol, Ipswich, Salem, Marblehead and Newberry, and the 3 Great Offices are at Boston, New York and Philadelphia."Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Herman MollAttribution
CartographerDate made
1715 - 1730Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionTranscription
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Dimension Description
SightHeight
9 inWidth
13-1/2 inDimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 9 x 13 1/2 in. (22.9 x 34.3 cm)Material
Paper (laid), ink, WatercolorCondition
Notes
Overall Analysis: Discolored streak down center, short tear center bottom.General Notes
Note Type
Curatorial RemarksNote
History: Herman Moll, a Dutch cartographer, was in London as early as 1681. In 1715, Moll printed a map of the British dominions in North America, which included a long legend on postal service in the colonies. At least part of the text was the same as this map's text.
Another copy of this map, belonging to the Map Division of the New York Public Library, has been tentatively dated 1730. I. N. P. Stokes, however, suggests that, from Moll's working dates of 1700 to 1730 and from the details on this map, an earlier date may be correct.
William Cumming states, "These maps of the British colonies by Herman Moll are some of the best of the period. His lettering is excellently clear, and he gives information of considerable historical value in his numerous legends."Note Type
StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church, Storage, Shelf 28C