PLAN of the Town of HILLSBOROUGH in Orange County NORTH CAROLINA

Sauthier, Claude Joseph

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

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

1768

Survey'd & Drawn in October 1768 By C,J, Sauthier.

Scale approximately 1:4,600

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Hillsborough (N.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Hillsborough
• North Carolina
• North and Central America
• Orange (county)
• 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 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.