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ARRANGED UNDER DIRECTION OF THE
HON. CHRISTOPHER MORGAN, Secretary of State.
BY E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, M. D. VOLUME
I.
ALBANY: WEED, PARSONS & CO., PUBLIC PRINTERS. 1850.
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* * # The Map facing the Title page of this
Volume
is
taken from one of North America, engraved by
Lucini, an Italian artist, originally on four sheets, three of which belong to the
Warden Col feet ion of the
State Library. It will
be perceived from its Title that it is a Map of New Belgium (now New-York,) and part of New
England, the former of which Provinces was claimed at the time, to extend from Cape Cod to the Capes of Delaware.
The absence of any date
renders it
difficult,
however, to ascertain precisely the year it was
engraved and this point can be determined only by other evidence. Boston, which was settled in 1630, is found laid down, but there is no mention of Maryland, the Province of Virginia forming the southern Boundary of New Belgium.
As Maryland was first granted in that and the settlement of Boston.
1632, it is evident the date of this Map must be some year between
Most probably, it was engraved in 1631.
In point of time, it may be considered the third oldest Map of the Province extant, having, as far as yet