Background articles on Maps, Cartography, and Surveying of North Carolina
Maps:
Maps, Cartographers, or Publishers of Maps of the North Carolina Area
North Carolina Gazetteer:
Preface, 2nd Edition
North Carolina Surveyors, Cartographers & Mapmakers
Brazier, Robert
(d. 1837)
Christmas, William
(1753-1811)
Churton, William
(1749-1767)
Collet, John Abraham
(1756-1789)
Lawson, John
(1674-1711)
Masa, George
(1882-1933)
Maule, William
(1690-1726)
Michel, Franz Ludwig
(1680-post 1714)
Moseley, Edward
(1682-1749)
Mouzon, Henry Jr.
(1741-1807)
Pearce, Samuel
(1807-1878)
Price, Jonathan
(d. 1822)
Sauthier, Claude Joseph
(1736-1802)
Sharpe, William
(Laywer Billy) (1742-1818)
Strother, John
(d. 1815)
Tatham, William
(1752-1919)
White, John
(b. 1540)
Wimble, James
(fl. 1696-1744)
Listing of all entries:
Cartographers, Mapmakers, and Surveyors in NCpedia
Historical Map Depictions of North Carolina
1585:
John White: Map showing Roanoke Island and surrounding islands
1657:
Nicholas Comberford: "The South Part of Virginia"
1671
John Ogilby: "A New Description of Carolina by Order of the Lords Proprietors"
1700-1710
John Brickell: "A Map of North Carolina"
1708
Herman Moll: "Carolina"
1709
John Lawson: "Lawson Map of North Carolina"
1718
William Maule: Map of the ". . .Island of Roan-Oak. . ."
1733
Edward Moseley: "New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina"
1737
Edward Moseley: "A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina. . ."
1738
James Wimble: ". . .Chart of his Majesties Province of North Carolina. . ."
1770
John Collett: "A Compleat Map of North Carolina"
ca. 1771
Claude Joseph Sauthier: “A Plan of the Camp and Battle of Alamance. . ."
1773
William Sharpe: “A Map of Fourth Creek Congregation”
1775
Henry Mouzon and Others: “An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina. . .”
1792
William Christmas: “Plan of Raleigh”
1798
W. Barker, Jonathan Price, and John Strother: "A map of Cape Fear River. . ."
1808
Jonathan Price and John Strother: “First Actual Survey of the State of North Carolina”
1833
Robert H. B. Brazier (and John MacRae) “A New Map of the State of North Carolina”
1857
William Dewey Cooke and Samuel Pearce: “New Map of the State of North Carolina”
1860-1866
Samuel Pearce: “Pearce’s New Map – The State of North Carolina”
Interpretive Maps
Additional map resources:
North Carolina Maps, UNC-Chapel Hill -- historical maps from the 1500s to 2000s. https://web.lib.unc.edu/nc-maps/index.php
Maps about Colonial Trade
- Sugar in the Atlantic World. University of Michigan. https://web.archive.org/web/20190615205155/http://clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/sugarexhibit/sugar05.php
- The Triangular Trade. Map from the BBC Bitesize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqv7hyc/revision/3
