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Item · 1764
This map was originally part of Bellin's "Le Petit Atlas Maritime" showing French fortifications destroyed during the 1758 siege. MAP 805
Fonds · 1767-1768
Collection consists of the original grant listing the grantees of the proposed 20,000 acre Philadelphia Township which was to abut Partridge Island in the vicinity of present day Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. It also includes the articles of incorporation for the group in Philadelphia who intended to create the township. Accession 2011-030
Anthony Thickpenny fonds
Fonds · 1772
Fonds consists of a survey of islands in Mahone Bay in 1772, identifying the properties of Anthony Thickpenny and Edward Thomas. MBMS-44
J. F. W. DesBarres
Series · 1776
Part of Eastern Shore Archives map collection
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was born in 1729 in France. He died on October 27, 1824 in Halifax. He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich (London), England in the early 1750s, where he studied fortifications, surveying, and drafting. In 1756, he went to North America where he began his military career as a lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment and saw action against the French at Louisbourg, Quebec, and Newfoundland, during which time he also began surveying in those regions. He was a military engineer, surveyor, and later Governor of Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island.By 1763, his surveying and mapping skills had been noted and he was commissioned by the Admiralty to chart the coast and offshore waters of Nova Scotia from 1764 to 1773. He later published his charts and views, together with contributions from Samuel Holland and others, in a navigational atlas that he produced on behalf of the Admiralty in 1777. The atlas was called The Atlantic Neptune, the final version of which was published in 1781.The Atlantic Neptune consisted of detailed charts and views of North American coasts, with the charts containing both topographical and hydrographical details.Series forms part of the map collection and consists of maps surveyed By Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres during the summers of 1764 to 1773 by order of the Right Honourable Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty. The maps show the diversities of the coast, ledges, shoals, rocks, soundings, and the quality of the bottom. Accession number: 2003.087
Londonderry Township, 1780
Item · 1780
Londonderry Township map showing Planter Grantees and Lots. Traced from original by James Fulton, D. Surveyor, abt. 1780. Downscaled tracing done by Bruce McNutt, 1983. 2019.19.1
Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1972]-[ca. 2002]
Fonds consists of records of the activities of Robert Kim Stevens. Records were created and accumulated between about 1972 and 2003. Fonds is arranged into five series: correspondence, research material and publications, family files,maps, and drawings. Accession number 2003.010.
Maps
Series · ca. 1740-1780
Part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds
Series forms part of Robert Kim Stevens fonds and consists of one early Italian map of Acadia, Ile Royale and the surrounding area including Ile St. Jean. The map was likely drawn by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, a French-born hydrographer and geographer who produced many maps of Canada and other French territories in North America and was chief cartographer of the French Navy in 1721 and later Official Hydrographer of the King. 2013.026
John Bonyman fonds
Fonds · 1779-1780
Fonds consists of one double entry ledger recording sales of general sundries related to Bonyman's business in Scotland.