maps
The most famous map from 17th century Portsmouth is the tracing (above) of Piscataway River in New England c. 1665, showing the original "Strawberry Banke" area close to the river, the Great House and settlements on Great Island (now New Castle).
Architectural historian and chairman emeritus of the American Studies Department at Boston University, Richard Candee, included these maps (left) of Portsmouth, comparing development in 1665 to 1715 in his Building Portsmouth: The Neighborhoods & Architecture of New Hapmshire's Oldest City.
Emerson W. Baker, contributing editor of American Begininngs: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega, a beautiful volume, illustrated with 100 maps from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine makes the following recommendations:
Emerson W. Baker, contributing editor of American Begininngs: Exploration, Culture and Cartography in the Land of Norumbega, a beautiful volume, illustrated with 100 maps from the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine makes the following recommendations:
- "The single best resource for early maps of New England is the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine and great exhibits on line, like one on the Cartographic Creation of New England.
- For roughly the time of the treaty is Daniel Neal’s 1720 Map of New England:
- Also, the 1714 map of the region by “C Brown”