The very rare FIRST STATE. This map by John Thornton, Robert Morden and Philip Lea forms one key sheet of wall map surviving in just one example in the Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris (illustrated on p. 281 of Burden). “Cartographically the most accurate printed map of the region to date was Joel Gascoyne’s “Province of Carolina” of 1682. This is largely derived from that map, with some omission of detail. The main area of divergence is the Outer Banks, which as Cumming points out is similar to the Lancaster manuscript of 1679 that survives in the Blathwayt atlas at the John Carter Brown Library. Another is the variance of soundings along the entire coastline. Two features in particular of the Gascoyne map of 1682 are prominent here also: the two insets. The first, “A Table of the names of such Settlements”, is identical in shape and content to the earlier map and identifies the landowners in and around the Ashley and Cooper Rivers. The second is an inset map of the region of “Charles Towne” entitled “A Perticuler Map for the going into Ashley and Cooper Rivers”. It is derived from the second state of the Gascoyne map as it was profoundly altered. Interestingly, though, the main body of the map is derived from the first state, evidenced by the depiction of the region of the Pleasant Valley and Lake. (Burden)

Previously thought to be incomplete it was Burden who identified this as the missing link to the wall map published by Thornton, Morden and Lea. Lea acquired sole ownership c.1695 and altered the map slightly including the imprint. This is an example of the first state bearing all three publishers names. Burden 617; Cumming & De Vorsey 104; Pritchard & Taliaferro p. 369 no. 72.