A place to discuss North Carolina's cartographic history
Freydeck suddenly appeared west of the Blue Ridge (in current day Ashe County) on several English and French maps of North America published in 1755. By the end of the 18th Century, Freydeck was gone. What is the origin of this extinct North Carolina place name?
If asked to name 18th Century North Carolina surveyors, the top three names that come to mind, in chronological order, are John Lawson, Edward Moseley, and William Churton. There are a lot of mysteries pertaining to Churton’s life, death, and his manuscript map of North Carolina. Some of those mysteries are discussed here.
Henry Mouzon contributed very little, if anything, to the famous 18th century map of the Carolinas that bears his name. This is the story behind the map.
The two separate states of John Collet’s 1770 map, A compleat map of North-Carolina from an actual survey / by Capt’n Collet, are described.