Map Description: This is the lower left portion of A Map of New England According to the latest observation 1720. This was a pull out map, frontspiece, published in a book entitled The history of New England containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country, to the year of our lord 1700.

Source: John Carter Brown Library

This is the New England as it existed in 1747. Three years before this map was published, John Harper Sr. moved his family west from the Boston area to Middletown in the Province of Connecticut. Middletown is shown on the Connecticut River due west of Boston. Note there was also a 'road' between Boston and Hartford which would have been the probable route taken.

Seven years after this map was published, John would take his family west again. In this case he was moving from East Windsor to Cherry Valley. The western most part of this map shows Albany on the Hudson River.