Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

My intrepid Sidekick Jennifer from California emailed me a link to a map I was unfamiliar with…

Here is the version that can be zoomed in…

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ncmaps/id/1245

But of particular interest to me personally is this additional map by the mapper of the above 1737 version that Mike McNamara has styled the “manuscript map”. This is a section showing the survey line of Byrd II in 1728. Moseley was there also but I figure him and William Little were probably drunk most of the time… I have no proof but I do have my suspicions… smiling.

Did I mention that Jennifer from California’s last name is Thornton? Observers will notice that one Thomas Thornton is noted on the map just a stone’s throw away from Carolus Anderson. It seems that William Byrd II was too busy trying to seduce William Kinchin’s wife to mention Mr Thornton. (Byrd wrote two versions of his exploits surveying the boundary line… the “secret” version is more entertaining)… cough…cough.

This is low resolution, my apologies… if you know of a higher res version let me know. Also click on the blue filename below for the bigger version to view.

Not a bad job on the map… considering they did not have aerial photography and satellite GPS in 1728…

Here is my version, as best as I can recreate…