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• A map of The Nine Squares Of Ancient New Haven.
• Samuel H. Conger map of the Town Lots of the First Residents of Newark, New Jersey.
• 1806 map of the Town Lots of the First Residents of Newark, New Jersey.
• A. Vanderdonck's 1650 map of the New Jersey.
• Map of General Vicinity Surrounding Newark, NJ.
• Map of Early Roads Around Crane Town (Montclair, NJ).
• Map of Morris County Township Boundaries (c. 1740).
• Along the Whippanong, pg. 12
  Portion of encroachment map made by William Roome showing area that was legally in East Jersey but was claimed by West Jersey Proprietors during period (1688-1719) when shifting boundary line between the Jerseys was subject of many disputes. Names on plots are those of original Proprietors of township.
• Along the Whippanong, pg. 13
  Map of 1743 showing Quintipartie Line which was final boundary line between East and West Jersey. For brief period after Morris County was formed in 1740, township was called New Hanover.
• Along the Whippanong, pg. 65
  Whippany - Map of camp sites of French during encampments of 1781 and 1782.
• Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County, pg. 261
  Morristown and related American outposts in the Revolutionary War.
• Colonial and Revolutionary Morris County, pg. VI
  A map of Northern New Jersey - 1700.
• In Lights and Shadows - Morristown in Three Centuries, pg. 100
  The Morris Canal, 1824-1924
  Possible routes for the Morris Canal, which accompanied the Report of the Commissioners Appointed by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, for the Purpose of Exploring the Route of a Canal to Unite River Delaware near Easton with the Passaic, near Newark, 1823. The principal interest of this map today is the location of the forges, furnaces, factories and mills. The actual route of the canal was altered considerably east of Dover. Its final route went through Denville, Boonton and Montville to Little Falls; then from Paterson directly south to Bloomfield, East Orange, Newark and then Jersey City.

  This idea for the Morris Canal - an up-and-down marvel of 34 locks and 23 inclined planes - first came to George P. Macculloch on a fishing trip at Lake Hopatcong. The lake was 925 feet above sea level and then covered five square miles. If the lake's outlet were dammed and the water allowed to accumulate each winter, then in spring there would be plenty of water to release westward down the valley of the Musconetcong to the Delaware and eastward down the valleys of the Rockaway and Passaic Rivers to Newark. The canal could bring coal from Pennsylvania and provide an economical way to transport raw materials and finished goods in northern New Jersey. Macculloch interested the state in his project and, in November 1822, was appointed one of three commissioners to explore a practical route. On December 51, 1824, an act was passed incorporating the Morris Canal and Banking Company. The first trip from Newark to Phillipsburg was completed on Novernher 4, 1831, and took about five days. Its most prosperous decade was 1860 to 1870, after which it began to suffer strong competition from the railroad. However, it was not abandoned until 1924 and several small sections are still visible.
  Scanned & OCRed by L. H_iler

• In Lights and Shadows - Morristown in Three Centuries, pg. 102
  Proposed train routes on A Map of the Morris and Essex Rail Road, Surveyed Under the Direction of Ephraim Beach, Esq., Civil Engineer, By J. B. Green, 1835. Ephraim Beach was also the chief engineer for the Morris Canal.
• In Lights and Shadows - Morristown in Three Centuries, pg. 109
  Map of Morris County, N.J., from Original Surveys; by J. Lightfoot and Sam Geil, 1853.
• In Lights and Shadows - Morristown in Three Centuries, pg. 45
  Washington's position at Morristown, February 20, 1780. This map was drawn by a British officer in New York who never saw the area but obviously had good information. Note, however, he did not learn the location of the Powder Mill. Washington's headquarters was in Morristown at the Jacob Ford Jr. mansion
• In Lights and Shadows - Morristown in Three Centuries, pg. 96
  The 1830 Morris County Jail Limits, extended in 1843, showing the location of the new court house. Within these limits, prisoners not considered dangerous - principally debtors - could walk freely during the day. Though not intended for the purpose, the map records the town's growth since 1819. Most striking is the number of new buildings on the Green, down South Steet and on Bridge Street (Speedwell Avenue).
• A map of Bloomfield, NJ, circa 1830.
  People listed:
  

  Ichabod Baldwin, Stephen Morris, Jacob Morris, Isaac Collins, Aunt Polly Baldwin (Mother of Warren S. Baldwin), S. Jewell, Elias Wilcox, Widow Kent, John Osborn, Charles H. Osborn, James Ball, John Moore, Major Simeon Baldwin, Mrs. Hayes (Grandmother of T. Edmond Hayes), Samuel Pitt, Colonel William B. Baldwin, Jonathan Dodd, Granny Baldwin, Captain Tucker, Joel Dunham, Davey Fustian, Herman Cadmus, Mrs. Hiram Dodd, Mrs. Henry King, Michael Chitterling, Gorline Doremus, Isaac Ward, Dury Bromley, Brower, Aunt Becky Ward, Mr. Silas Monroe, Abijam Dodd, Mrs R. Oakes (Widow of Thomas Oakes), Jothan Ward, Mrs. Robert Ward, Thomas Collins, Morton, Aunt Jane Dodd, Captain Benjamin Church, John Ballard, Reverend C. Gildersleeve, Joseph Collins, Thomas Spear, Zophar B. Dodd, Mrs. Matthias Bowden, Mr. Humphrey M. Perrine, Caleb Ward, Isaac Dodd, Daniel Thompson, J. Farrand Ward, M. D. Thomas, Abitha Ward. Widow of Genl. John Dodd, Squire Joseph Davis, I. Dodd, Farrand Davis, William Williamson, Bethuel Ward, Daniel Dodd, Amos Dodd, Jacob K. Meads, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, Doctor Eleazer Ward, Joseph Fairchild, Eliphalet Hall, Jacob K. Mead, Mrs. Lydia Gibb (Widow of James Gibb), Linus Ward, Mathias Baldwin, Isaac Baldwin, Jas. Wharry, Mrs. Enos Ward, Chas. Wharry, Smith Ward, Ira Dodd, Widow Thomas Cadmus, A. Cadmus, Abram Cadmus, Israel Ward, Moses Condit, William Stanford, Eli Baldwin, Widow Ward, Mrs. John Wright, Nathaniel Dodd, John Oakes, John F. Capen.

  Places listed:
  

  Bay Lane, Morris Neighborhood, Morris Canal, North Belleville, Road to Paterson, Mill Pond, Grave Yard, Old Road to Cranetown, Belleville Ave., Bloomfield Commons, North & South Branch 2nd River, Washington St., Montgomery St., Franklin St., Newark & Pompton Turnpike, Orange St., Methodist Church, Bloomfield Academy, Paper Mill, Saw Mill, Fustian Mill, Cider Mill & Paste Board Mill, Tavern, Wheelwright Shop, Presbyterian Church, Tan Yard, Hat Shop, Butcher, Franklin Hill School House.

• Major Settlements of the Palatine Emigrant 1709ers in colonial New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• Circa 1730 Map of Humphrey Davenport's Land along the Rockaway River.
• 1887 Map of Hiler Family Lots along the Boonton & Montville Towhship line.
• 1920 Road Atlas Maps of New Jersey Cities.
  Morristown     Newark     Elizabeth
• 1990 U.S. Department of Commerce, Map of New Jersey Counties.
• 1790 New Jersey Census Map
• 1874 panoramic map of Newark, NJ.
• Map of Morris County.
• Large 1895 New Jersey Atlas Maps of Morris County, Essex County.
• Small 1895 New Jersey Atlas Map of Morris County.
• Bergen County History & Maps
• Maps of New Amsterdam/Manhattan Island.
  1639     1660     1676     1660     1660 - Nieuw Amersfoort (Flatlands in Brooklyn)
• A New York & Eastern New Jersey Map From 1776.
• A New York/New Jersey Battle Map From The Revolutionary War.
• "A New and accurate map of the present seat of war in North America, comprehending New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pensylvania, New-York, &c." (1777).
• The Province of New Jersey, divided into East and West, commonly called the Jerseys. (1777).
• Area map of the greater New York City area, showing the towns and forts surrounding the city in 1776.
• A Map of Western Migration Routes.
• Regional map of the eastern United States bewteen Virginia and New York showing the English, Dutch and Swedish settlements between 1607 and 1760.
• New York State Maps: Digital Images of Maps Made Prior to 1830.
• Reference Map of the Middle Colonies, 1607-1760.
• An 18th century map of Connecticut, New York, and Northern New Jersey.
• Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library - Colonial America.
• Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library - Revolutionary America.
• Historical Maps of the United States (Exploration/Settlement/Territorial Growth).
• Animated Boundaries of the Contiguous United States through time.
• North America, Nicholas Sanson, 1650.
• Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova, Blaeu, 1662. NE America, centered on NJ.
• The Colony of Connecticut (1755).
• The Colony of Connecticut (1775).
  From A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England...(London: T. Jeffery's, 1775). Library of Congress.

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