. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . f that latter year. Now, at the time the Provost wrote his A Brief State,in 1755, a map of the Middle British colonies was madeand published by Lewis Evans, which is here reproducedas giving the best conception of Pennsylvania and thesurrounding colonies at that time.^ This and Evans earliermap of 1749 were the chief maps in use for the next fifteenyears, or until young Thomas Smith aided in surveys for anew one. Here he would see a country that would look aswild, vague and unknown as a map of
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . f that latter year. Now, at the time the Provost wrote his A Brief State,in 1755, a map of the Middle British colonies was madeand published by Lewis Evans, which is here reproducedas giving the best conception of Pennsylvania and thesurrounding colonies at that time.^ This and Evans earliermap of 1749 were the chief maps in use for the next fifteenyears, or until young Thomas Smith aided in surveys for anew one. Here he would see a country that would look aswild, vague and unknown as a map of Africa does was Burlington, the largest place in New led in Pennsylvania, with Lancaster second,while round about east of the Alle-geni Mountains, or,rather, the Kittatinny Mountains, were Norriton, Bris-tol, New Town, Chester, Reading, Ephrata, York andHarris Ferry, with Carlisle, York, Shippensburg, RaysTown (later Fort Bedford), and nothing else to the west- ^ From the copy in, the Pennsylvania archives. •W, -itt -iKif ^^n^f«a. e^.i^^ittfVfua. /k^*j^*^wa<. MAP OF PENNSYLVANIA ANI KROM Lkwis Kvans, in Ti
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