Manuscripts
Rhode Island. Map of ye Narragansett Country
- Description
MS. Map. 1 leaf, 9 1/4 x 14 5/8 in. in ink. Scale: 1 in = 3 leagues. Possibly drawn by Thomas Hinkley.
- Date
- c. 1684 ).
- Call number
- BL 233
- Additional description
- The collection includes 27 unofficial letters addressed to Richard Nicolls, first English governor of the colony of New York.
- Provenance
- Purchased from A. S. W. Rosenbach, July 1924. After Blathwayt's death, the papers were in possession of Edward Southwell, his son-in-law. Then they were purchased by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872) and were known Phillipps Mss. No. 8558. The papers were offered for sale in 1908, and changed hands at least once more, through the agency of Sotheby's.
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