PLAN of the Town & Port of BEAUFORT in Carteret County NORTH CAROLINA

Sauthier, Claude Joseph

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1770

Survey'd and Drawn in August 1770 By C,J, Sauthier.

Scale approximately 1:3,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Beaufort (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Macon (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Beaufort
• Carteret (county)
• Fort Macon
• North Carolina
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink, colour ; 43 x 53 cm

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• 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.