The State of New Hampshire Complied chiefly from Actual Surveys. 1796.

Original copperplate engraved map
Fine handcolor. 
440 x 280 mm
Map # SM-02
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The map shows numerous towns, existing counties at the time, roads,  houses & mills.  Some houses are identified by name; e.g. "Capt. Smiths;  "Paine's Hill's Tavern".  In the far north, an Indian carry place (for canoes) is shown.  Descriptive text is located to the east of New Hampshire - "N.B. The White Hills appear many leagues off at Sea like White Clouds: just rising above the Horizon", a reference to the sighting of the NH White Mountains in the early 1600s by ships at sea some 90 miles away.  The northern border with British Quebec is marked and refers to a survey of 1789.  However, the exact location of this border with British Quebec would not be completely settled until well into the 1800s.

There are two issues of this map.  This New Hampshire map was engraved in New York City by Benjamin Tanner and published there by John Reid.  The map formed part of Reid's The American Atlas.  The publisher citation below the map confirms the publication location - "Published by John Reid, New York".    According to Ristow (p. 153), this map was also included in Winterbotham's The American Atlas, published in Philadelphia by Reid, also in 1796.   Cobb states that the "Reid American Atlas issue (the map shown here) is identical to the Winterbotham but rarer (p. 15).  The verso of the map is blank.  Mileage scale is in upper right.  Cartouche is in upper left.

Reference:  Cobb,  David.  New Hampshire in Maps to 1900 An Annotated Checklist. Map # 76.   Ristow. American Maps and Mapmakers.

Fine Condition overall with wide borders and attractive coloring.  Several marginal edge separations.  Map image itself is solid with no paper problems.  Colored line under Quebec is actually border demarcation with Vermont.  This map is framed, but can be shipped outside of the frame.