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Delmarva Maps and Resources

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Maps of the Delmarva Peninsula

The following are a selection of Delmarva maps, sorted by century. Most of the maps are part the Nabb Research Center's extensive collections and can be located by searching the Map Database.

Maps of the Delmarva Peninsula on this site
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Seventeenth Century

	Hondius, Jodocus - Late 16th or early 17th century (sources vary) Chesapeake Bay ("Chesepioock Sinus") shown at top right as a small indentation in the coastline.
	Jansson, Johannes - 1628 Nova Virginiae tabvla Petrus Koerius Coelavit About: MD Archives		Ogilby, John - 1635 Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula About: MD Hist. Society
	Farrer, John - 1650 A Map Of Virginia Discouered To Ye Falls About: Hist. Maps of PA		Montanus, Arnoldus - 1671 Nova Virginia Tabula About: MD Archives
	Speed, John - 1676 A Map of Virginia And Maryland About: MD Hist. Society		Seller, John - 1682 About: MD Archives

        Eighteenth Century

		Senex, John - 1721 A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey		Moll, Herman - 1741 New Map of Virginia and Maryland
		Evans, Lewis - 1755 A General Map Of The Middle British Colonies, In America (cropped) Information		Fry, Joshua & Jefferson, Peter - 1755 Most inhabited part of Virginia and Maryland (also PA, NJ, and NC)
		T. Kitchin Geogr - 1757 A Map Of Maryland With The Delaware Counties And The Southern Part Of New Jersey		Mason and Dixon - 1768 A Map of that part of America where a degree of latitude was measured for the Royal Society [link to information about dispute]
		Alexander, Robert - 1781 Map of the Delmarva Peninsula.		Churchman, John Jr. - 1786 The Peninsula Between Delaware & Chesopeak Bays
		Holland, Capt. N. - 1794 A New Chart of the Coast of North America from New York to Cape Hatteras. About: Charting the Chesapeake		Faden, W - 1809 The United States of North America: With the British Territories and those of Spain.

        Nineteenth Century

Lucas, Fielding Jr. - 1832 A Chart Of The Chesapeake And Delaware Bays About: Mapping Maryland

Blunt, Edmund M. - 1804 The bay of Chesapeake from its entrance to Baltimore About: MD Archives