PHINEHAS MERRILL MANUSCRIPT DRAFT
FOR HIS ENGRAVED PLAN OF
STRATHAM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1792

An extraordinary discovery, this is an original manuscript draft by Phinehas Merrill for his seminal Plan of the Town of Stratham, published in 1793—the only map of a New Hampshire town published in the eighteenth century, and a key example of early American mapmaking. This remarkable survival in Merrill's own.....