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An Historical Geography of the United States

(From Townsend Mac Coun, An Historical Geography of the United States, New York-Boston-Chicago, Silver, Burdett & Co., 1901)


King James' Patent of 1606

English Charters and Grants in 1660

The Original Public Domain in 1787

United States in 1820
Reorganization of the Plymouth Company in 1620

Grants to the Duke of York, 1663-1686

United States in 1790

United States in 1830
National Claims to the Atlantic Slope in 1640

English Colonies, 1763

United States in 1800

United States in 1840
National Claims to the Atlantic Slope in 1655 

Land Claims of the Thirteen Original States in 1783

United States in 1810


THE MAP COLLECTIONS

(From M. L. W. Laistner, A Survey of Ancient History to the Death of Constantine, Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1929)

(From A. W. Ward et al., The Cambridge Modern History Atlas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1924)

(From James Westfall Thompson, Ancient History of the Middle Ages: 300-1500, New York, W.W. Norton, 1937)

(From Albert Bushnell Hart & alii, eds., American History Atlas, Third Edition, Chicago, Denoyer-Geppert Co., 1930)

(From Townsend Mac Coun, An Historical Geography of the United States, New York-Boston-Chicago, Silver, Burdett & Co., 1901)

(From Dixon Ryan Fox, Harper’s Atlas of American History, New York, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1920)

(From Lawrence J. Burpee, ed., An Historical Atlas of Canada, Toronto, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1927)

(From J. G. Bartholomew, Atlas for Canadian Schools: A New Series of Physical and Political Maps, London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913)

(From Clifford Sifton, Concise School Atlas of the Dominion of Canada, Ottawa, Minister of Interior, 1900)

(From Emil Reich, A New Student Atlas of English History, London, Macmillan and co., 1903)

(From T. W. Higginson, E. Channing, English History for Americans, New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1902)

(From Léon Mirot, Manuel de géographie historique de la France, Paris, Éditions A et J. Picard, 1947)

(From James Murdoch and Ysoh Yamagata, A History of Japan during the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse 1542-1651, Kobe, The Chronicle, 1903)