(UNITED STATES ORDINANCE OF 1784) Charles Delamarche Etat

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(UNITED STATES -- ORDINANCE OF 1784.) Charles Delamarche. Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale. Double-page engraved map of the United States. 20 1/4x26 3/4 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color; faint mat stain and one small repair at lower left, desiccated mounting tape residue to verso edges, but generally nice. Paris, 1785

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Attractive French map bearing an interesting table at lower right which outlines the 13 United States "subtracted" from the British Empire in 1776, plus Vermont. A further paragraph notes the formation of 10 additional states, a group proposed and named by Thomas Jefferson in 1784: Silvania, Michigania, Chersonesus, Arsenistpia, Metropotamia, Illinoia, Saratoga, Washington, Polypotamia, and Pelisypia. Jefferson's plan for these new states was not adopted by Congress but parts of his Land Ordinance passed, leading to the creation of the Northwest Territory a few years later in the area which roughly comprises today's Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.