• William Faden (1749–1836) was an English cartographer and a publisher of maps. He was the royal geographer to King George III. He replaced Thomas Jefferys...
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  • around the year 1740. While young, he moved to London to apprentice with William Faden, a Scottish printer. However, Hicky never took his freedom from the...
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    governor from New York City. After news of the overthrow of James II by William of Orange in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 reached Boston, the colonists...
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    Walcott had had an increase in population since 1088. In August 1797, William Faden published the first comprehensive map of Norfolk that included Walcott...
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    defend New York City from the British were unsuccessful. British General William Howe and his troops landed on Long Island in August and pushed Washington's...
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    exchange for freedom. The loyalists included the governor of New Jersey, William Franklin. Wikisource has original text related to this article: New Jersey...
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    Peasantry. ... Less than a month later, on 28 June 1775, Chief Justice William Hey wrote to the Lord Chancellor from Quebec: What will be your Lordships...
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  • c. 1710–1771), geographer of King George III of the United Kingdom William Faden (England, 1749–1836), successor to Thomas Jefferys Pierre Jacotin (France...
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    publication supported by John Payne, John Newbery, Robert Stevens and William Faden. Since The Idler did not occupy all Johnson's time, he was able to publish...
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    Program 1777 Chart/Map of Narragansett Bay by Charles Blaskowitz and William Faden at DavidRumsey.com Guide to the Rhode Island Leased Oyster Bed Grounds...
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    the state of New Jersey, fought between British forces under General Sir William Howe and the Continental Army under General George Washington. Howe was...
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    opulentia fabulosus" Map from 1796 by Francisco Requena Map from 1807 by William Faden which shows the "Golden Lake or Lake Parime, called likewise Parana...
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    Laurie, 1861, p. 689 William Faden, Louis S. d Arcy De la Rochette: A Chart of the Atlantic or Western Ocean […].William Faden, London 1780 Alexander...
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    with Spain on the 14th July 1786 (Map). 1:400,000. London: Printed for William Faden. hdl:loc.gmd/g4820.ct008427. LCCN gm70000406. French, C. D.; Schenk...
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    sell.'[citation needed] Richard Horwood's map of 1792–99, updated by William Faden in 1818, shows No. 80 Coleman Street separated from Armourers' Hall...
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    detail of the Operations of the British Forces in Egypt in 1801 by William Faden. British positions on 12 March - "6". British attack on 13 March - "7"...
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    as Grays Inn Lane, or Graysynlane. Richard Horwood's map (updated by William Faden in 1813) calls the whole stretch from Holborn to modern King's Cross...
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    were made popular by the English cartographer and a publisher of maps William Faden (1749–1836). Another root of comparison diagrams are the earliest thematic...
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    mother country. Among the most notable loyalists was the state governor, William Franklin, the illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin, a leading revolutionary...
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  • the Delaware River in late 1777, and is shown on a 1785 map drawn by William Faden. Alternate names are Carpenters Island, Cock's Island, Cocks Island...
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    counter as often as he could to watch the gardeners at work. He befriended William Forsyth who at that time had charge of the Apothecaries' Garden; through...
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    partners' on the ground at Grand Portage (in what is now Minnesota) and Fort William (in what is now Ontario). At Lachine, the Montreal partners boarded their...
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    Jefferys, these maps were re-issued by other map publishers such as William Faden. Sea of the West Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thomas Jefferys...
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    Constantinople. The atlas was created by translating and adapting maps from William Faden's General Atlas and the full title of the atlas reads as Cedid Atlas...
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    twenty years of age, and was employed by John Cary, the engraver and William Faden. He became Hydrographer to the Prince of Wales c. 1810 and subsequently...
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    Hospital". London Gardens Online. Retrieved 22 July 2019. Horwood, Richard; Faden, William (1819). Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster the Borough of...
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    Military map by William Faden with troop movements during the Ten Crucial Days...
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    in Familiar Village Tales, Ancient and New. T.K. Collins, Jr. Morgan, William James, ed. (1970). Naval Documents of The American Revolution, American...
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  • Beach first appears as a named feature on the 1777 map of New Jersey by William Faden, where it is labeled as a part of Brigantine Beach called Mihannon Shoal...
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    Rigobert Bonne Robert Sayer Thomas Bowen Thomas Jefferys Thomas Kitchin William Faden By the late 1700s, European presence in the northeast Pacific, and the...
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