Cartographer | Sauthier, Claude Joseph |
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Former owner | George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820 |
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Donor | George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830 |
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Date | 1770 |
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Scale | Scale approximately 1:3,800 |
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Language | English |
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Location | British Library |
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Collection (local) | British Library Collection |
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Subjects | - Beaufort (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
- Fort Macon (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
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Places | - Beaufort
- Carteret (county)
- Fort Macon
- North and Central America
- United States
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Extent | 1 map : manuscript pen and ink, colour ; 43 x 53 cm |
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Terms and License | - No known copyright restrictions.
- This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Notes | - Relief shown by shading.
- With a scale of fathoms, within the title at upper left.
- With a short lettered key (A-C) within the title at upper left identifying the court house, "Goal" and "Wind Mill".
- Shows and names "Fort Dobbs in ruin" (later the site of Fort Macon).
- With a decorative compass arrow orienting north to the top of the map.
- Titled "A drawn Plan of the Town and Port of Beaufort, in Carteret County, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Aug. 1770, 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 and port of Beaufort, in Carteret county, North Carolina; surveyed and drawn in Aug., 1770, by C.I. Sauthier," on a scale of 50 fathoms to an inch: 1 f. 3 in. x 1 f. 4 1/2 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.
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