Note 268 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Cf. annexed extract from Popple’s British Empire in America. The maps of Herman Moll are the chief ones, immediately antecedent to Popple’s. One of Moll’s, called “New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,” is in Oldmixon’s Brit. Empire in America, 1708. In 1729 he included what he called a “Map of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania” in his New Survey of the Globe. It singularly enough omits the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers. A somewhat amusing transformation of names is found in a map published by Homann, at Nuremberg, Nova Anglia Anglorum Coloniis florentissima. David Humphrey’s Hist. Acc. of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has also a “Map of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, by H. Moll, geographer,” in which the towns are marked to which missionaries had been sent. It is dated 1730.