Detail of title block.

A chart on the bottom right lists the original thirteen states “extracted” from the British Empire in 1776 and their capitals; the chart also includes a note on the formation of Vermont after July 4, 1776.

Detail of the area of the United States. Notice the Eastern states stretching to the Mississippi.

Also listed are ten proposed states suggested by Thomas Jefferson for the Northwest Territories in 1784.

Detail of the area that would become Texas

In Texas (Tecas) the details of the rivers are clearer than in previous French maps, thus demonstrating a waning dependence on the work of Guillaume de l’Isle (Delisle).

The map also includes the names of indigenous villages and the establishment of the French fort by de la Salle in 1685. Present-day Corpus Christi Bay is identified as the “bay that the French mistook for the St. Bernard in 1720.”

This is a rare early U.S. map that also shows most of the territory that would later become Texas.

A reproduction of this map can be purchased on the GLO website.