A map of the Southern Indian District of North America / compiled under the direction of John Stuart, Esqr., His Majesty's Superintendant of Indian Affairs, by Joseph Purcell. [1775]

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A map of the Southern Indian District of North America / compiled under the direction of John Stuart, Esqr., His Majesty's Superintendant of Indian Affairs, by Joseph Purcell. [1775]

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Shows North America east of the Mississippi River and south of the Ohio River. References identify 155 Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee villages. Includes notes on Indian land claims and cessions. Date of compilation, fuller description, and bibliographic references in: Cumming, William Patterson. The Southeast in early maps / rev. and enl. by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. 3d ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998) p. 323-324, no. 438, and plates 68-71.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 1,888 x 1,706 mm.

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