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English: From the catalog of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center:
Relief shown by shading. With a scale of fathoms within the title at upper right. With a short lettered key (A-E) within the title at upper right identifying the "Church", "Court House", "Goal", "Market House" and "Mills". With a decorative compass arrow at upper left orienting north to the top of the map. Shows roads, including "Road to the Quaker Settlement". Shows a "Race Ground". Shows the Eno River. Titled "A drawn Plan of the Town of Hillsborough in Orange County, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Oct. 1768, by C.I. Sauthier" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829. Titled 'A "plan of the town of Hillsborough, in Orange county, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Oct., 1768, by C.J. Sauthier," on a scale of 62 fathoms to an inch: 1 f. 8 in. x 1 f. 5 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum. |
| Date | October 1768 |
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Downloaded from the Norman_B._Leventhal_Map_Center at https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z439g -- which asserts that there are "No known copyright restrictions", but then tries to license this image under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA). The original is currently housed in the British Library This map was first published in October 1768, so it should be well out of copyright _unless_ the fact that it was previously owned by King George III suggests it is under Crown Copyright, but I haven't found an evidence of that. |
| Author | Claude Joseph Sauthier |
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