A Map of the American Indian Nations, adjoining to the Missisippi, West & East Florida, S. & N. Carolina, Virginia. & c.
A very rare early assessment of the native tribes and their locations. Spanning from what would be present day Iowa and Wisconsin, down to the fractured tip of Florida, this map shows the major rivers, as well as the regional boundaries. While the colonies of Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia reach to the Mississippi, Virginia also has a strange extension that reaches up beyond the Ohio River and gives it lands up to Lake Erie, bounded by an oddley meandering Wabash River that is shown running into present day Ohio. West of this odd Wabash River is the French land of "Louisiana", reaching across the prairies of Illinois and on past the Mississippi. In the eastern portion of North Carolina the Earl of Granville property is noted simply along its northern border as "Granvill".
Throughout the map native tribes are noted, with their major towns identified. Upper and Lower "Cheerake", "Chikkasah", and many others are shown as they were throughout the South, with tribes like the "Delaware" and "Lower Shawano" in the nearby plains of the Ohio River Valley.
A very scarce map, we find no instance of this map being offered through the price record.
Condition is, with hand color. Image size is 13.25 x 9.5(inches).
