A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America: Viz. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensilvania, New-Jersey, New-York, Connecticut and Rhode-Island

Map

This detailed map of north eastern America shows the boundaries, cities, mountains, rivers, lakes, Native American land and towns, and roads from east of the Mississippi River and north of North Carolina. It includes an inset map "A Sketch of the remaining Part of Ohio R. &c." that covers the area of Lake Michigan, Ohio River, and the upper Mississippi River, including Wisconsin. Three distance charts sit at the lower right. Text throughout the map describe Native American claims, both what they have given to the British and what they maintain, historical and contemporary events, and the state of the rivers, soil, and mountains. Much of this text serves to emphasis Gibson's assessment that the Ohio lands are of great importance and worth defending from French encroachment. Native American lands and settlements, especially the Iroquois Confederacy, are given significant prominence, and Gibson takes great pains to indicate whether the specified tribes side with the French or the English.