Map of the country adjacent to Fort [Franklin] on French Creek

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Item Information

Title:
Map of the country adjacent to Fort [Franklin] on French Creek
Creator:
Heart, Jonathan, 1748-1791
Date:
[1787]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Manuscript maps
Location:
William L. Clements Library
Collection (local):
William L. Clements Library Collection
Subjects:
Franklin (Pa.)--Maps
Fort Venango (Pa.)--Maps
Fort Franklin (Franklin, Pa.)--Maps
Places:
Pennsylvania > Venango (county) > Franklin
Extent:
1 ms. map ; 21 x 34.2 cm.
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Scale:
Scale of 15 chains to one inch.
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
Catalog record
Notes:
Finished, topographical map of the confluence of French Creek and the Allegheny River showing the locations of Fort Franklin and the former Fort Venango.
See Heart to Harmar, June 1, 1787, Harmar Papers (Clements Library).
Map is accompanied by a three-page explanation describing this map and two of Heart's plans of Fort Franklin.
Space left in title for name of the fort pending a decision by General Harmar.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5658
Barcode:
B2995271