COLLECTION NAME:
Touchton Map Library
Record
Accession Number:
1996.051.3422.001
Short Title:
A New Map of East Florida
Date Range:
1760s
Author:
William Stork
Contributor(s):
Lord Will Hills, the first Marquis of Downshire
Cartobibliographic notes:
Provenance: According to HCHC records: "On Wednesday Feb. 15th. 1956 The Earl of Hillsborough visited the court house which bears his name, and view (sic) the display exhibited in the Commission's Museum. On this occasion he presented to the museum a rare and early map of Florida which had been in the possession of his family for nearly two hundred years. There is no copy known of it either in the Library of Congress, or the British Museum. The map not dated, is the work of William Stork and pictures the state's coastal outline about the year 1765, and is inscribed to his Lordship's ancestor the first Earl."
In 1956, the descendant of Wills Hill, Arthur Hill, the seventh Marquis of Downshire, visited Tampa during the city's annual Gasparilla celebration. During his visit to the Hillsborough County Courthouse, Hill presented to the County the original New Map of East Florida.
Lord Hill was the Secretary of State for the American Colonies from 1768 until the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. Hill's office collected an abundant amount of information on the British colonies. Geographic knowledge was important, so a cartographer was sent to study the Florida's. This study culminated in the New Map of East Florida. Hill felt strongly about the prospects of East Florida, so he attempted to secure a land grant in the new British domain. Another British cartographer, Bernard Romans, traveled to the East Florida colony and, in 1772, named two bodies of water for Hill, the Hillsborough River and Hillsborough Bay.
In 1956, the descendant of Wills Hill, Arthur Hill, the seventh Marquis of Downshire, visited Tampa during the city's annual Gasparilla celebration. During his visit to the Hillsborough County Courthouse, Hill presented to the County the original New Map of East Florida.
Lord Hill was the Secretary of State for the American Colonies from 1768 until the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. Hill's office collected an abundant amount of information on the British colonies. Geographic knowledge was important, so a cartographer was sent to study the Florida's. This study culminated in the New Map of East Florida. Hill felt strongly about the prospects of East Florida, so he attempted to secure a land grant in the new British domain. Another British cartographer, Bernard Romans, traveled to the East Florida colony and, in 1772, named two bodies of water for Hill, the Hillsborough River and Hillsborough Bay.
A New Map of East Florida
