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Joyner Library's Ralph Scott, Curator, Printed Books & Maps in front of one of only three original Edward Moseley 1733, “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.”
Without benefit of aerial photography and satellite imagery, Edward Moseley got a lot right with his 1733 map titled “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.” It covers a wide sweep of territory, from the Santee River delta in South Carolina up to southern Virginia and west to the Piedmont. The mouth of the Cape Fear below present-day Wilmington is nearly spot-on, with the coast making a sharp westward turn and the cape thrusting like a dagger into the sea.
Only three of Moseley’s original 1733 maps are known to exist in the world. One is housed in the Public Records Office in London while another is kept at Eton College in England. The only map in America, and the one likely owned by Moseley himself, is framed on the wall of the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library.
Photographed in the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library, Friday, March 3, 2017, in Greenville, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
Without benefit of aerial photography and satellite imagery, Edward Moseley got a lot right with his 1733 map titled “A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina.” It covers a wide sweep of territory, from the Santee River delta in South Carolina up to southern Virginia and west to the Piedmont. The mouth of the Cape Fear below present-day Wilmington is nearly spot-on, with the coast making a sharp westward turn and the cape thrusting like a dagger into the sea.
Only three of Moseley’s original 1733 maps are known to exist in the world. One is housed in the Public Records Office in London while another is kept at Eton College in England. The only map in America, and the one likely owned by Moseley himself, is framed on the wall of the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library.
Photographed in the Special Collections room at East Carolina’s Joyner Library, Friday, March 3, 2017, in Greenville, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals

