<div dir="ltr">Apologies to all for duplicates via MAPS-L or other lists.<div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:13px">One of the rarest colonial era maps of Virginia is "A new and accurate map of Virginia wherein most of the counties are laid down from actual surveys…by John Henry", published in London in February, 1770, by Thomas Jefferys. Published cartobibliographies and descriptions of this map have reported only one known state of the map. However, Al Gore's Great Internet has allowed identification of an unrecorded first state of the map. You can read about it here:</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><a href="http://blog.ncmaps.org/index.php/john-henrys-1770-map-of-virginia/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">http://blog.ncmaps.org/index.php/john-henrys-1770-map-of-virginia/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jay Lester<br>Chapel Hill, NC<div><a href="http://blog.ncmaps.org/" target="_blank">North Carolina Map Blog</a></div></div>
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