Map of the surveyed part of Wisconsin Territory

"Compiled from public surveys as returned to the Surveyor General’s Office by S. Morrison, E. Dwelle, Surveyor Genls. Office Cini., J. Hathaway Jr., District Surveyor Milwaukee."
"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1835 by S. Morrison, E. Dwelle & J. Hathaway Jr. in the clerks office of the District of Ohio."
"Engraved by Doolittle & Munson."
Shows extent of U.S. General Land Office surveys in Door Peninsula and southeast of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, including settlements, roads, Indian villages and reservation, and French long lots as private claims on the Fox River at Green Bay.
Scale [ca. 1:878,000]
Relief shown by hachures.
Insets (23 x 13 cm. and 23 x 16 cm.): Townships and fractional townships about Milwaukee. Scale 1:126,720. 1/2 in. to the mile -- Connection of private claims with public surveys at Green Bay. Scale 1:126,720. 1/2 in. to the mile.
Contemporary manuscript additions include a proposed road between Milwaukee and the Mississippi River at Cassville, rivers in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, and the town of Chicago.
Verso addressed in manuscript to "Ino. B. Sunbergen, Mt. Jackson, Shenandoah Co., Va." from "Hon. Joel B. Sutherland, Ch. Com. on Com. H.R." Sutherland, a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and chairman of the House Committee on Commerce between 1833-1837, is also associated with variant editions of this map annotated in manuscript and held by the Wisconson Historical Society.
Bookplate of Thomas W. Streeter.
Another version was issued without attribution or imprint in: Lytle, Robert T. Reports and estimates from the Surveyors General for the year 1836. Lytle’s text, dated "Cincinnati, September 21, 1835", forms part of the U.S. Surveyor General’s annual report in U.S. Serial Set, 24th Congress, 1st session, 1835-1836, House Document 5 (Serial Set 286).
One of several editions issued with varying content in 1835, 1836, and 1861; see Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900 and Koepp, U.S. Serial Set index, part 14, Maps.

Original Collection:

Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Newberry Library)

Referenced In:

Cf. Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900, no. 6-1628.5, 6-1629, 6-1630, 6-1634, and 6-1635, Cf. Koepp, U.S. Serial Set index ... maps, ASP035-08 (24-1) Pub. land 1339, map 5, Streeter Americana, III, 1924

Citation

United States. Surveyor General, "Map of the Surveyed Part of Wisconsin Territory" ([Cincinnati, Ohio] : Doolittle & Munson, 1835). Broadside Graff 5085

Newberry Call Number:

broadside Graff 5085

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Geographic Area Covered:

Wisconsin, Wisconsin--Milwaukee Region, Wisconsin--Green Bay, Wisconsin--Green Bay Region

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Digital reproduction of: 1 map : hand colored ; 57 x 44 cm.

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