1775 Mouzon-Delarochette map of the Carolinas

Henry Mouzon, Jr., very likely through no fault of his own, received primary authorship credit for

An Accurate Map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontiers..., a map that was actually compiled by Louis Delarochette (or De la Rochette), a British cartographer and engraver. Mouzon actually contributed very little, if anything at all, to the creation of this map. For more details, please read the PDF available via the link below, originally published on the 240th anniversary of the map’s publication, May 30, 2015. Of note, the missing manuscript map attributed to Delarochette was found in early 2022 at the South Caroliniana Library on the campus of USC in Columbia, SC.

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