Figure 1. Browne/Senex "A New Map of Virginia, Mary-land...," 1685

Figure 1. Detail from Christopher Browne, A New Map of Virginia, Mary-land..., 1685. Huntingfield Collection, Maryland State Archives, SC 1399-663.

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The Browne/Senex map series of 1685-1719 was not alone in describing the town on the south side of the Severn River as Arundelton, not Annapolis. See Edward C. Papenfuse and Joseph M. Coale, III, The Hammond-Harwood House Atlas of Historical Maps of Maryland, 1608-1908 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982). The first general map to correctly identify Annapolis was that of Lewis Evans, published in 1755. The first navigational chart to note the town was the very rare 1733 Mapp of the Bay of Chesepeack... printed in 1735, but all of the more readily available charts continued to call the town Arundelton until after publication of the Evans map.

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