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Simeon Deyo, editor of "The History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts" - 1890

The interesting thing about this map is the configuration of Chatham's Outer Beach.  Monomoy is not connected to the mainland, as it was through most of the 1900's.   Instead it is connected to North Beach.

 

John Sellers Map- 1675

This is the way Cape Cod and Chatham looked to early explorers in 1675, 19 years after the town

was settled by William Nickerson.  Notice John Sellers, the creator of this map,

draws Monomoy as a chain of small islands and North and South Beach are

completely disconnected from the mainland.  This looks initially like a distortion of

early cartography and maritime drafting.  However, with what experts know of the

geomorphology of the area today, both representations are certainly within the

realm of possibility.

John Sellers- 1675

Thomas Jefferys-  A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England, 1755

Thomas Jefferys' map of New England and New York was the most influential map of this area published during the eighteenth century. Based on a variety of sources, it provided the model for all the more accurate maps of New York prior Simeon De Witt's map of 1802. Although individual eighteenth-century British maps improved on Jeffery's map in a variety of ways, the overall framework of British mapping during this period remained essentially the same as that seen here. This map is an excellent source of eighteenth-century place names.

Although it is usually attributed to Jefferys, it was actually drawn by his assistant Braddock Mead (also known as John Green). The map contains a list of the sources used in its compilation, which was unusual in the eighteenth century. In spite of this list, it appears that the map was derived largely from other sources. The entire New England portion of the map was almost certainly copied from a little-known map by William Douglass. The part depicting New York was probably copied from a British military survey, part of which can be found in the Public Record Office. As Geographer to the King, Jefferys had access to manuscript surveys of the American colonies, some of which have been lost.

REFERENCES:
David Yehling Allen, Long Island Maps and Their Makers , 34-37

William P. Cumming, British Maps of Colonial America , 45-47
Alex Krieger and David Cobb, eds., Mapping Boston , 28
John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen Van Ee, Maps and Charts of North America , no. 797

       

Thomas Jeffries- 1755