| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 21 | Title: | A topographical description of such parts of North America as are contained in the (annexed) map of the middle British colonies & in North America
| | | | Creator: | Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805 | | | | | Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756 | | | | | Gist, Christopher, d. 1759 | | | | Publication: | J. Almon, London,1776. | | | | Notes: | The map has title: A map of the middle British colonies in North America. First published by Mr. Lewis Evans...in 1755; and since corrected and improved, as also extended, with the addition of New England, and bordering parts of Canada: from actual surveys...By T. Pownall... The original map was published at Philadelphia in 1755 in connection with a pamphlet by Evans having the following title: Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays. The first, containing An analysis of A general map of the middle British colonies in America...The "Topographical description", in addition to the map, includes numerous extracts from this essay of Evans. Appendix: 1. The account of Capt. Anthony Van Schaick of the ground between the entrance of lake Chaplain at Crown point, and the mouth of Otter creek.--II. Captain Anthony Van Schaik's journal, 1756.--III. Captain Hobb's account of the way from No. 4. in New Hampshire, to the mouth of Otter creek.--IV. Extracts from the journal of Captain Harry Gordon...who was sent from Fort Pitt...to Illinois, in 1766.--V. Extract from Mr. Lewis Evan's journal. 1743.--VI. A journal of Christopher Giat's journey, began from Col. Cresap's at the old town of Potomack river, Maryland, October 31, 1750, continued down the Ohio, within 15 miles of the falls thereof; and from thence to Roanoak river in North Carolina, where he arrived May 19, 1751; undertaken on account of the Ohio company... | | | | Call #: | E163 P889 Vault Oversize | | | | Extent: | vi, 46, 16 p. front. (fold. map) 42 cm. | | | | Subjects: | New England -- Description and travel | Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 23 | Title: | New England's trials: declaring the success of eighty ships employed thither within these eight years, and the benefit of that country by sea and land; with the present estate of that happy plantation, begun but by sixty weak men in the year 1620; and how to build a fleet of good ships to make a little navy royal
| | | | Creator: | Smith, John, 1580-1631 | | | | Publication: | G. P. Humphrey, Rochester,1898] | | | | Notes: | On verso of t.-p.: Colonial tracts, no. 13. Caption title: Colonial tracts, v. 2, no. 2. Reprint, without acknowledgment, from Force tracts, v. 2, no. 2. First edition of original published in 1620. | | | | Call #: | E186 A512 v.2, no.2 | | | | Extent: | 23, [2] p. 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | New England -- Commerce | New England -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 25 | Title: | Remarks made on a short tour between Hartford and Quebec, in the autumn of 1819
| | | | Creator: | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | | | | Publication: | S. Converse, New-Haven,1824. | | | | Notes: | Added t.-p., engraved. Also published under title: A tour to Quebec, in the autumn of 1819 ... London, 1822. | | | | Call #: | BX9765 S584 | | | | Extent: | 2 p. l., [3]-10, [9]-443 p. 9 pl. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Quâebec (Province) -- Description and travel | New York (State) -- Description and travel | New England -- Description and travel
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 26 | Title: | Things as they are; or, Notes of a traveller through some of the middle and northern states
| | | | Creator: | Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866 | | | | Publication: | Harper & Brothers, New York,1834. | | | | Notes: | Binder's title: Notes of a traveller. Second edition issued under author's name, New York, 1847, with title: Summer tours; or Notes of a traveler ... Howes D609. | | | | Call #: | E165 T443 | | | | Extent: | 1 p. Á., [v]-viii, [9]-252 p. front., plates. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | United States -- Description and travel | Atlantic States -- Description and travel | New England -- Description and travel | United States -- Social life and customs
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 27 | Title: | Old paths and legends of the New England border: Connecticut, Deerfield, Berkshire
| | | | Creator: | Abbott, Katharine M. (Katharine Mixer), b. 1865 | | | | Publication: | G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London,1907. | | | | Call #: | F1J A132 | | | | Extent: | 2 p. 1., iii-xiv, [2], 408 p. incl. illus., map. front., plates. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | New England -- Description and travel | Connecticut -- History | Connecticut River Valley -- History | Long Island -- History | Berkshire County (Mass.) -- History
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 31 | Title: | The new English Canaan of Thomas Morton
| | | | Creator: | Morton, Thomas, 1575-1646 | | | | | Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915 | | | | Publication: | Printed for the Society, Boston,1883. | | | | Notes: | Reprint, with original t.-p., of Amsterdam edition of 1637. "Two hundred and fifty copies." Includes bibliographic references and index. | | | | Call #: | E186 P957P v.14 | | | | Extent: | vi, 381 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America -- Massachusetts | New England -- Description and travel | Massachusetts -- Description and travel | Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 32 | Title: | Advertisements for the unexperienced planters of New England, or anywhere: or, the pathway to erect a plantation
| | | | Creator: | Smith, John, 1580-1631 | | | | Publication: | W. Veazie, Boston,1865. | | | | Notes: | Includes reproduction of original title page. Reprint. Originally published : London : John Haviland, 1631. Two hundred and fifty copies printed, small quarte. This copy not numbered. Includes index. | | | | Call #: | B 1373 | | | | Extent: | viii, 72 pages : ill., fold. map ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Virginia | New England -- Description and travel | New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Virginia
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 33 | Title: | The northern traveller: containing the routes to the Springs, Niagara, Quebec, and the coal mines; with the tour of New England, and a brief guide to the Virgina springs, and southern and western routes
| | | | Creator: | Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866 | | | | Publication: | J. P. Haven, New-York,[1841] | | | | Notes: | Imperfect : 1 plate wanting. | | | | Call #: | B 6207 | | | | Extent: | iv p., 21., [7]-50 (i.e. 250) p. front., plates, maps (1 double) 16cm. | | | | Subjects: | Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks | New England -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks | Canada -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks | New England -- Description and travel | Quâebec (Province) -- Description and travel
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