[Upper Canada and the Great Lakes region]

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[Upper Canada and the Great Lakes region]

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https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990055606510106381

Finished, colored, outline map showing the basic geography of the region with a number of important posts noted. Notations on the map and on the verso and some later pen and ink additions to the map provide additional details on individual features and might have been added by Governor Simcoe. Style of the map is similar to another attributed to Elizabeth Simcoe.

1 ms. map : col. ; 22.5 x 37.3 cm.

eng, Latn

William L. Clements Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6912927

William L. Clements Library

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Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hj7c23 (person)

John Graves Simcoe was born at Cotterstock, England in 1752, the third of four sons of John and Katherine Simcoe. He spent one year at Merton College, Oxford, before entering the army as an Ensign in the 35th Foot in 1770. He was posted to Boston in 1775, and in 1777 was given command of the Queen's Rangers, a mixed (predominantly light infantry) corps made up of loyalists. He took part in several operations in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia before being invalided home as a Lieutenant-Colon...

Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma, 1762-1850

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Elizabeth Simcoe was born Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim in 1762, the daughter of Thomas Gwillim and Elizabeth Spinkes. Thomas Gwillim died seven months before the birth of Elizabeth; her mother died in childbirth. Elizabeth was raised by her mother's sister, Margaret, and her husband, Admiral Samuel Graves. She met John Graves Simcoe through this connection; Simcoe was the godson of Admiral Graves, and stayed with the Graves family on his return to England from America in 1781. In 1782, Elizabeth a...