Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

meant what they said, said what they meant

the United States 1784… a map

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/even-1784-america-it-was-impossible-make-map-without-infuriating-someone-180952700/

I mean really… how many of you genealogists consider that all the old pharts we study reckoned that North Carolina went all the way to the Mississippi River?

I wonder how many young students today can wrap their heads around this?

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Written by anderson1951

September 24, 2014 at 7:40 am

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