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archive.org: "The conduct of the French, with regard to Nova Scotia : from its first settlement to the present time; in which are exposed the falsehood and absurdity of their arguments made use of to elude the force of the treaty of Utrecht, and support their unjust proceedings; in a letter to a
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peterharringtonbooks.com: "The American Atlas: or, A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America: wherein are delineated at Large, its Several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and Chiefly the British
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who was the leading map supplier of his day. He engraved and printed maps for government and other official bodies and produced a wide range of commercial maps and atlases, especially of
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A Plan of all the Houses, destroyed & damaged by the Great Fire, which began in Exchange Alley Cornhill, on Friday March 25, 1748
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was reissued in 1776, expanded in response to growing hostilities between the British and the Americans; it contains maps by
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In 1754, Jefferys took a robust and public stance in the controversy with the French on the boundary of
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After the death of Jefferys, these maps were re-issued by other map publishers such as
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The American Atlas: Or, A Geographical Description Of The Whole Continent Of America
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Buckinghamshire in the 1760s and 1820s: The County Maps of Jefferys and Bryant
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Jefferys commissioned surveys and published maps of several English
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A General Topography of North America and the West Indies
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Index


Siberia
Second Kamchatka Expedition
George III
English
cartographer
North America
Prince of Wales
Thomas Kitchin
English Midlands

Joshua Fry
Peter Jefferson
New England
Robert Sayer
Joshua Fry
Peter Jefferson
Lewis Evans
Nova Scotia
Acadia
Father Le Loutre's War
expulsion of the Acadians
Joshua Fry
Peter Jefferson
counties
scale
Bedfordshire
John Ainslie
Huntingdonshire
Oxfordshire

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