A new and accurate map of North America

This coloured map of North America drawn by Huske in 1755 and sold by R& I Dodsley of Pall Mall defines Britain's claim to the eastern board of North America between Newfoundland and Florida. The map is entitled 'A new and accurate map of North America, (wherein the errors of all preceeding British, French and Dutch maps, respecting the rights of Great Britain, France and Spain, and the limits of each of His Majesty's provinces, are corrected.) Humbly described by the Honorable Charles Townshend, one of the right honorable Lords Commissioners, for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain etc, to his most obliged, most obedient and very humble servant, Huske. In the top left hand corner is an additional larger scale map of Hudson's Bay.

By the 1750s the English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, German and French settlers occupied of the area east of the Appalachians. America was a significant trading partner for many London merchants. Tobacco from Virginia and Maryland was a major import. Tobacco plantations were dependent on slave labour. By 1755 slaves in the southern colonies totalled 217,000 out of a population of 546,000.