Artist/Maker

Mortier, Pierre

Place Made

Date Made

1695-1700

Medium

ink on paper

Dimensions

HOA: 19″; WOA: 23 1/2″ (sight)

Accession Number

3024.1

Description

Description: Despite the title stating that it is by Nicolas Sanson, the map is, in fact, of English origin, derived directly from the 1695 map by John Thornton and Robert Morden. The Thornton & Morden map was based on a survey Maurice Mathews, Surveyor General of Carolina (1677-1684). Mathews provided approximately 250 plantation-holder names. This was the first map of South Carolina published outside of England.

RELATED OBJECTS: John Thornton and Robert Morden’s 1695 New Map… (of) South Carolina on loan to MESDA from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (MESDA Acc. 5714.5; CWF Acc. 1989-369)

REFERENCES: Burden, Mapping of North America, 768
Cumming, Southeast in Early Maps, 121

History

One of nine maps published by Pierre Mortier in 1700 as Suite de Neptune Francois, ou Atlas Nouveau des Cartes Marines

Credit Line

Gift of Frank L. Horton