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Custodial History
Items in this collection were acquired by gift and purchase from various sources. Materials are added to the collection as
they are acquired.
Preferred Citation
[Name and date of item], Historic Map Collection, [Folder], Special Collections, The George Washington Presidential Library
at Mount Vernonn [hereafter Washington Library], Mount Vernon, Virginia.
This collection of historic maps date from 1675-1971, and primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary
War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia. Includes matching editions of maps personally owned by George
Washington.
Note: surveys created by George Washington are found in the George Washington Collection.
The Island of Barbados; divided into its parishes, with the roads, paths, &c. according to an actual and accurate survey
Moll, Herman, -1732
1 Sheets 1 hand colored map 37 x 29 cm on sheet 40 x 37 cm
1736?English.
Created / Published
London: Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill (1736?)
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-550, MAP-4079
Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland
Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757
1 Sheets 1 hand colored map 64 x 48 cm on sheet 75 x 55 cm
1755French.
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 37 RP-976, MAP-5407
Carte des Parties Nord et Ouest de l'Amerique
Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
1 Sheets hand colored 39 x 30 cm on sheet 44 x 37 cm
1772French.
Created / Published
Livourne, France: 1772
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 35 M-181
Map of the province of New York, reduc'd from the large drawing of the province, compiled from actual surveys by order of
his Excellency Willion Tryon Efq. Captain General & Governor of the fame, by Claude Joseph Sauthier; to which is added New-Jersey,
from the topographical observations of C.J. Sauthier & B. Ratzer
Faden, William, 1749-1836Sauthier, Claude JosephRatzer, Bernard
1 Sheets folded map, colored. has been conserved. 58 x 73 cm
1776English.
Created/Published
London: Wm. Faden, 1776.
Maps Drawer: 122 : L : 2 RP-681, MAP-4835
A plan of Boston in New England with its environs, including Milton, Dorchester, Roxbury, Brooklin, Cambridge, Medford, Charlestown,
Parts of Malden and Chelsea. With the military works constructed in those places in the years 1775 and 1776
Pelham, Henry, 1749-1806Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812
1 Sheets hand colored
1777English.
Maps Closed Stacks Section: Table MAP-6475 A/B
A map of the most inhabited part of Virginia containing the whole province of Maryland with part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and North Carolina
Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757Jefferys, Thomas, -1771Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794
2 Sheets
1775English.
Created/Published
London : Printed for Robt. Sayer ... & Thos. Jefferys, 1775
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 37 RP-2574, MAP-6943
Plan de la bataille de Montmouth où le Gl. Washington commandait l'Armée Américaine et le Gl. Clinton l'Armée Anglaise, le
28 Juin 1778
1 Sheets 39 x 21 cm on sheet 43 x 28 cm
1781-1782French.
Created/Published
Bruxelles: Michel Rene, 1781-1782
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-643, MAP-4351
Plan D'York en Virginie, avec les attaques et les campemens de l'Armée de combinée de France et d'Amérique
Soulés, François, 1748-1809
1 Sheets colored 38 x 29 cm on sheet 43 x 38 cm
1787French.
Created/Published
Paris: François Soulés, 1787
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-555, MAP-4132
A new and complete map of the West Indies
1 Sheets 1 map 85 x 46 on sheet 89 x 52 cm
1794 May 12English.
Created / Published
London: Mons. R. Danville, published by Laurie & Whittle, 1794 May 12
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 37 RP-643, MAP-4350
Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814Mutlow, I.
1 Sheets 48 x 33 cm
1794 July 16English.
Created / Published
Picadily, London: J. Stockdal, 1794.
Statement of responsibility: I. Mutlow sc. 6 James St. Covt. Gardn.
Philadelphia : Samuel Lewis for Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved, 1794
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 37 RP-2544, MAP-6912
Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and
by them established as the seat of their government after the year 1800
Russell, John, active 1733-1795
1 Sheets 1 map 52 x 40 cm on sheet 56 x 43 cm
1795English.
Created / Published
London: John Russell, 1795
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-859, MAP-5266
Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America,
and by them established as the seat of their Government, after the year MDCC
Thackara & Vallance
1 Sheets 1 map 86 x 64 cm
1792English.
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 M-836
Plan of Mt. Vernon, the home of Washington
1 Sheets 1 map 29 x 36 on sheet 32 x 40 cm
1855English.
Created / Published
C. Currier, 1855
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 2017-SC-021
George Washington's land at Mount Vernon Fairfax coy Virginia. As it was & as it is
Gillingham, W.
1 Sheets 1 map 42 x 31 cm
1859English.
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-481, MAP-3875
Johnson's Georgetown and the city of Washington: the capital of the United States of America
1 Sheets 1 colored map 46 x 36 cm
1862English.
Created / Published
New York: Johnson & Ward, 1862
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-1012b MAP-5447/n
George Washington's map of his Mount Vernon Estate, drawn by him in 1793 and based on his own surveys
1 Sheets 53 x 37 cm on sheet 57 x 41 cm
1945English.
Created / Published
Published, Mount Vernon Ladies Association, 1945
Copyright, California: the Huntington Library, 1931
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-541, MAP-4070
Plan of the town of Alexandria in the District of Columbia in 1798
1 Sheets 1 map 72 x 57 cm
1944English.
Created / Published
New York: Drawn by George Gilbin in 1797, engraved by T. Clarke, published by I.V. Thomas, 1798
Maps Closed Stacks Drawer: 36 RP-2137, MAP-6602
Proposed Piscataway Park and Mount Vernon viewshed
city 
of Washington in the territory of Columbia ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and
by them established as the seat of their government after the year 1800