The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)

The Bradford Plan: An early survey map of New York in 1730 under British control (A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey.)

Survey map of Manhattan in 1730 (British New York).

Early survey map of British New York in 1730 with translated or transformed street names from the Dutch period, like Pearl Street (Dutch translation: Paerl Straet) becoming Queen Street. Or, an English translation of original Dutch names like Hoogh Straet translated into High Street, then called Duke Street after the Duke of York, only to be name Stone Street in 1794 for being the first street in the city paved with cobblestone.

Lyne, James.

Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center.

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection, Boston Public Library.

January 1, 1731/ January 1, 1732

Bradford, William. James Lyne, Henry Dunreath Tyler.

N/A.

Map, cartographic

Still image, online image.

English.

Still image, online image.

Call #: G3804.N4:2M3 1730 .L96 1890. Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library. https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:4m90f301f

New York, NY, 18th century.

Cartographic.

42x54 cm.