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MSA SC 5796-12-6
Collection	Potomac History (PotomacHistory website) Collection
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Dates	1794
Medium	Original
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Storage	Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
Description
Griffith, Dennis. Map of the state of Maryland : laid down from an actual survey of all the principal waters, public roads, and divisions of the counties therein : describing the situation of the cities, towns, villages, houses of worship, and other public buildings, furnaces, forges, mills, and other remarkable places, and of the Federal Territory : as also a sketch of the state of Delaware, shewing the probable connexion of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays / by Dennis Griffith, June 20th 1794 ; engraved by J. Thackara & J. Vallance. Published: Philad[elphi]a : J. Vallance, 1795. LC Call No.: G3840 1794 .G73 VA-DC Bdy For a discussion of the history of the creation of Griffith's map see: Edward C. Papenfuse and Joseph M. Coale III, The Maryland State Archives Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 2003, pp. 72-75. Also below for an accurate rendition of the Maryland Virginia Boundary on a map published shortly after the Mount Vernon Conference.

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