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Accessed January 27, 2026. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/2221hpr-18c8da8b57fbdf9/.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eSchneider, Becky. n.d. \"Research Guides \u0026amp; Indexes: John Smith's Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives: Maps.\" Library of Virginia. Accessed January 27, 2026. https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/smith-map/maps.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["British Museum. n.d. \"Jacob van Meurs | British Museum.\" Accessed January 27, 2026. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG38265.","National Park Service. n.d. \"Captain John Smith - Historic Jamestowne Part of Colonial National Historical Park.\" Accessed January 27, 2026. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/life-of-john-smith.htm.","\"Nova Virginiae Tabula.\" n.d.  Encyclopedia Virginia . Accessed January 27, 2026. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/2221hpr-18c8da8b57fbdf9/.","Schneider, Becky. n.d. \"Research Guides \u0026 Indexes: John Smith's Map of Virginia and Its Derivatives: Maps.\" Library of Virginia. Accessed January 27, 2026. https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/smith-map/maps."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eJohn Smith was born circa 1579-1580, his baptism being recorded on January 9, 1580 at Saint Helena's Church in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, to yeoman farmer George and Alice Smith. In 1596, Smith sailed to France and joined English soldiers fighting the Spanish and over the next ten years earned a reputation for his military strength, eventually attaining the rank of Captain. In December 1606, Captain Smith was chosen to accompany the newly formed Virginia Company across the sea to establish an English colony in Virginia. Named Jamestown in honor of King James I, the colony was formally established on May 13, 1607. The first months in Jamestown were difficult and in the fall of 1607, Captain Smith led expeditions to the nearby Powhatan villages in search of food. It was during one of these expeditions that Captain Smith was captured by a hunting party and eventually brought before Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of the Powhatan, and released, leading to the largely fabricated folk legend of his encounter with Wahunsenacawh's daughter Pocahontas.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eFrom June – September 1608, Captain Smith and a group of other colonists set out to explore and document the 2,500 miles of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, including the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, leading to Smith's creation of the most accurate map of the area at this time, including the location of Native American villages. Upon his return to Jamestown in September 1608, Captain Smith was elected president of the colony and head of the council. However, in the fall of 1609 a severe injury from a gunpowder explosion forced his return to England. Captain Smith would continue his exploration of the shores of northern Virginia and in his later years wrote extensively about his life and experiences as a soldier and colonist. He passed away on June 21, 1631 at the age of 51 and his buried at London's Holy Sepulchre Church (formally known as Saint Sepulchre-without-Newgate).\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["John Smith was born circa 1579-1580, his baptism being recorded on January 9, 1580 at Saint Helena's Church in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, to yeoman farmer George and Alice Smith. In 1596, Smith sailed to France and joined English soldiers fighting the Spanish and over the next ten years earned a reputation for his military strength, eventually attaining the rank of Captain. In December 1606, Captain Smith was chosen to accompany the newly formed Virginia Company across the sea to establish an English colony in Virginia. Named Jamestown in honor of King James I, the colony was formally established on May 13, 1607. The first months in Jamestown were difficult and in the fall of 1607, Captain Smith led expeditions to the nearby Powhatan villages in search of food. It was during one of these expeditions that Captain Smith was captured by a hunting party and eventually brought before Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of the Powhatan, and released, leading to the largely fabricated folk legend of his encounter with Wahunsenacawh's daughter Pocahontas.","From June – September 1608, Captain Smith and a group of other colonists set out to explore and document the 2,500 miles of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, including the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, leading to Smith's creation of the most accurate map of the area at this time, including the location of Native American villages. Upon his return to Jamestown in September 1608, Captain Smith was elected president of the colony and head of the council. However, in the fall of 1609 a severe injury from a gunpowder explosion forced his return to England. Captain Smith would continue his exploration of the shores of northern Virginia and in his later years wrote extensively about his life and experiences as a soldier and colonist. 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Researchers must complete the Washington Library's Special Collections and Archives Registration Form before access is provided. The library reserves the right to restrict access to certain items for preservation purposes.","Arranged alphabetically and filed according to size.","Paul Schott Stevens donated the collection of maps to the Washington Library in 2020.","Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin and American Philosophical Society, James Poupard, Sculp., 1786","London : Robert Sayer, 1763","London : London Magazine : T. 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Created in the wake of the failed English settlement at Roanoke Island, De Bry's color engraving visualizes English understanding of indigenous political communities such as the Secotan, Chawanook, and Weapemeoc peoples. At right, the ships heading into the Chesapeake Bay suggest future pathways for settlement and commerce.\"  -- Mapping the \"New World\": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection","\"Produced for the French Navy, the rare chart displayed here was the best available chart of this region for the time, and was used by all naval forces involved in combat during the American Revolutionary War. The information on this very detailed chart was based primarily on the work of American Anthony Smith, a local Chesapeake Bay pilot of St. Mary's County. The chart was consulted by Admiral de Grasse in his victory over the British off the Chesapeake Capes on September 5, 1781.\" https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:z603vv10h","\"Originally published in 1753, the Fry-Jefferson map was the most accurate map of Virginia at that time. This French version was printed at the beginning of the French and Indian War, which began when Governor Robert Dinwiddie ordered George Washington and his Virginia troops to drive the French off British-claimed land. Most of the indigenous names featured in John Smith's map are gone, replaced by Anglo-American settlements.\" -- Mapping the \"New World\": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection","\"Europeans had a more precise understanding of North America and the Caribbean by the early 18th century. Guillaume De L'Isle drew on earlier French expeditions into the continental interior to create the first accurate map of the Mississippi River. His use of color falsely implies fixed borders between competing European and indigenous peoples.\" -- Mapping the \"New World\": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection","\"Thirty years after Martin Waldseemüller printed one of the first maps of the Americas, Lorenz Fries published an updated European perspective on the New World. \"Terra Incognita\" on Waldseemüller's map has become \"Terra Nova\" on Fries's. The Castilian flag marks Spanish territorial claims in the Caribbean, while the continent's indigenous people are caricatured as primitive, reflecting common European misperceptions of native cultures.\" -- Mapping the \"New World\": Highlights from the Paul Schott Stevens Collection","The first printed map in English to show California as an island, with flat northern coast.","\"From Theodore de Bry's Grand Voyages, Dreyzehender Theil Americae published by Matheus Merian. This German version of Captain John Smith's map of Virginia depicts the English colony shortly after Jamestown's 1607 founding. Powhatan, the principal chief of the indigenous confederacy that dominated the region, presides in the upper left corner. The rivers command our attention. The English expected to settle the interior by following waterways upstream. In time, tobacco plantations worked by indentured servants and slaves replaced the indigenous settlements that dotted these rivers. 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