Description: "Éshowing the essential parts of a map issued by Barlow in Paris, with his proposals to induce immigration, but the legends are turned into English from the original French. 'This map, says Howe, 'is inaccurate in its geography and fraudulent in its statements.' The country was a wilderness where the map calls it inhabited and cleared, 'habité et défrich&eaccute;.' This region corresponds to what was known as the Seven Ranges of Townships, which Congress, May 20, 1785, directed to be sold, under surveys by Thomas Hutchins; and this is the only foundation for the alleged settlement of them. " (— Winsor, 1888)
Source: Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of North America Vol. VII (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888) 532
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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