Mr. Shroeder:

The area known as the "northern neck" of Virginia was surveyed in 1736
and 1737 and a reduced version of the survey was issued in several
editions by John Warner in 1747.  The area included in the surveys was
between the Potomac and the Rappahannock Rivers and present day Caroline
County was not included in the manuscript surveys or the later printed
maps.

An excellent accounting of Virginia's cartographic history can be found
in McKee & Stephenson, _Virginia in Maps, Four Centuries of Settlement,
Growth, and Development_ (Library of Virginia, 2000 - ISBN
0-88490-191-2).


Ed Redmond
Reference Specialist
Geography and Map Division
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4650
(202) 707-8548
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A friend has a segment of the 1737 survey of the Northern Neck.  It
goes to
the Chesapeake Bay but does not go west far enough to show Caroline
Co., the
area of interest.  Is there a segment that encompasses Caroline Co. and
how
might one obtain a copy of view of it?
John Shroeder

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