John Graves Simcoe – Maps and plans

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Map 2 Plan of Toronto; [Verso: "Toronto or York Harbour"] File 1788
Map 5 A Plan of part of the District of Hesse commencing near Point Pelê in the North Shore of Lake Erie and extending from thence along the waters edge to the entrance of River La Tranche on the East Shore of Lake St Clair and from the entrance of the said River up to the 2d Fork of the same delineated from actual survey made in the years of 1789 and 1790 [Recto: "No 1"]; [Verso: "Detroit shore"; "Bois Blanc"; "L. Erie & the La Tranche"; "L. Erie Shore"; "River la Tranche its mouth to the [?]"] File January 1791
Map 10 Plan shewing the Town and Fort Proposed to be made opposite the Isle au Bois Blanc near the entrance of Detroit River and Soundings as found in May 1790 [Verso: "A", "No. 1"; "Three Plans of Salt Springs upon Lake Ontario, J. Collins; Bois Blanc, Detroit River; A Map of Detroit within this" File April 1792
Map 12 [Sketch Map of Eastern North America] File [1792?]
Map 19 [Sketch Map of the Great Lakes and eastern United States] [Verso: "Canada"] File [1793?]
Map 22 Sketch of les Isles au Barrel with the soundings taken in fathoms File July 1794
Map 26 [Map showing part of Marysburgh Township] File 1794
Map 30 [Section of the River Thames] [Verso: "River Thames"] File [1794]
Map 39 The front of Two Townships at Long Point [and] The front of three Townships on the North Shore of Lake Erie File [1795?]
Map 40 Untitled [Verso: "Part of the River Thames"] File [1795?]
Map 50 "Lower Fort" [Verso: "Citadel"] File [176-?]
Map 53 [Sketch Map of the St. Lawrence Area from Montreal to Isle d'Orleans] [Inset: Entrance to St. Charles River] [Verso: "Orleans"] File [179-?]
Map 64 A Map Exhibiting A General View of the Roads and Inland Navigation of Pennsylvania and part of the Adjacent State File [178-?]
Map 65 [Map of the eastern United States - Delaware River to Atlantic Coast] [Verso: "American Map"] File [178-?]
Map 67 Survey of the South Shore of Lake Erie commencing at the Narrows at Fort Erie and Ending at the entrance of Detroit Rr taken in 1789 by Henry Ford, Naval Offr. Patk McNiffe, Asst Surveyor [Verso: "Survey of the south shore of Lake Erie"] File [ca. 1790]
Map 68 DeWitt's State Map of New York, 1st Sheet [Verso: "Printed Map of the State of New York & Virginia with part of the Susquahanna and Ohio Rivers"] File [ca. 1793]
Map 83 Sheet VIII, Ohio with parts of Kentucky and Virginia File 1833
Map 84 Sheet IX, Parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana File 1833
Map 89 Sheet XIV, Florida File 1833
Map 91 North America File 1843
Map 95 A Chart of the Road of Basque and the Coast between Rochfort and Rochelle With the Islands of Ree Oleron and Aix; A Plan of the Town & Fort of Aix; as it was Fortified when taken by the English, 23d Sep. 1757. Drawn by a Volunteer. Published by T. Jeffreys at Charing Cross, Novr 22 1757. File 1757
Map 100 [Drawing of siege towers and ships] File [175?-18?]
Map 101 [Layout of theoretical configuration of ships for naval engagement?] File [175?-18?]
Map 102 [Roof plan of part of a bastion?] File [175?-18?]
Map 106 [Plan of St. Mary's and vicinity] [Oversized from Series 3] File [1803]
Map 108 Campaign Map of Portugal and Spain [1812] Oversize from Series 12] File [1812]
Map 7 Plan for the better regulating and laying out the Town of Cornwall, formerly called New Johnstown, in the District of Luneburg, shewing the projection which it was [first settled] and that approved by the Board for the Land Office Department in the Year 1790, making it nearly correspond with the Plan ordered by His Excellency Guy Lord Dorchester in Councill the 17th February 1789, in consequence of which, an Investigati[on] was ordered but which was never carried into execution, the Board having business of more importance under consideration File 7 February 1792
Map 15 [Sur]vey of the Road from Burlington Bay to the River Ouse; opened by the Queen's Rangers; in September & October 1793. File 15 December 1793
Map 17 [Sketch of Queen's Town Harbour] File [1793?]
Map 18 [Sketch Map of the Niagara Peninsula, Lower Grand River and part of the River Thames] [Verso: "Ontario"; "Grand River & Indian Land"] File [1793?]
Map 20 [Map of Part of Eastern North America] File [1793?]
Map 21 Sketch of the Harbour of Prisque Isle. in the County of Northumberland Upper Canada [Verso: "Presqu'isle in Northumberland"] File June 1794
Map 24 [Communication between Long Point and the Thames River] [Verso: "Lake Erie by Chewitt"] File 10 September 1794
Map 28 Geometrical elevation and Plan, of a Block House, built at Chatham on the River Thames, Upper Canada File 1794
Map 29 Plan of Castle Frank Farm [Verso: "Castle Frank Farm"] File [1793 or 1794?]
Map 38 [Sketch Map of Upper Canada showing the routes Lt Gov Simcoe took on journeys between March 1793 and September 1795] [Verso: "Upper Canada"] File [1795]
Map 42 Plan of Six hundred Acres of Land Appropriated under an Order of Council for Richd Barnes Tickell, Esqr. Verso: "Land near Lake Ontario"] File June 1796
Map 43 Plan of the Different Channels leading from the Lake into Kingston Harbour with the Rocks Shoals & Soundings thereof [Verso: "Kingston Harbour"] File [1796?]
Map 44 [Untitled] "James Bramwall Toosey copied this from an actual survey" [Verso: "Detroit and Lake Erie"; "Hesse Indian Claims J.G.S."] File [179-]
Map 46 A Map of the Province of Upper Canada, describing all the New Settlements, Townships, Etc. With the Countries Adjacent, from Quebec to Lake Huron. Compiled at the Request of His Excellency Major General John G. Simcoe, First Lieutenant Governor [Verso: "Upper Canada"] File 12 April 1800
Map 48 A Map of the City and Fortifications of Louisburg. From a Survey made by Richard Gridley...in 1745. Published by Thos Jefferys at Charing Cross...Octobr 9 1758 [Inset: "A Plan of the City and Harbour of Louisburg with the French Batteries that defended it, and those of the English shewing that part of Gabarus Bay, in which they landed and the Grounds on which the encamped during the Seige in 1758"] [Inset: "A Map of Gabarus Bay adjoining to Louisburg"] File 1758
Map 51 Plan of the Town of Quebec, the Capital of Canada in North America, with the Bason & a part of the adjacent country shewing the principal encampments & works of the British Army Commanded by Major General Wolfe, & those of the French Army commanded by Lieutn General, the Marquis of MontCalm, during the siege of that place in 1759. [Verso: "Quebec"; "Quebec and the River St. Lawrence at the Time of the Siege"] File [176-?]
Map 54 [Richelieu Rapids] File [179-?]
Map 56 [St. Lawrence River from Richelieu Rapids to Quebec] [Verso: "St. Lawrence near Richelieu"; "Soundings above Quebec"] File [179-?]
Map 59 The Provinces of Lower Canada and New Brunswick File [183-?]
Map 70 Plan of the entrance to the Harbour at Oswego [Verso: "D", "No. 4"; "Plan of Oswego Harbour"] File [179-?]
Map 72 [Glaize River Area] File [179-?]
Map 78 [Negative copy of] Sheet III, Upper Canada with Parts of New York, Pennsylvania & Michigan File 1832
Map 81 Sheet VI, New York, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey File 1832
Map 87 Sheet XII, Georgia, with Parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama & Florida File 1833