Jeffreys & Faden. A Plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. London, 1776.

Thomas Jeffreys & William Faden  A Plan of Port Royal in South Carolina London, 1776 33 1/2" x 26 1/2"   The most important charting of South Carolina's Port Royal Sound and Hilton Head, during the early days of the Revolutionary War. An exceptional chart of the area around Port Royal and Hilton Head, the most important map of this region published prior to American Independence. Gascoigne's chart covers much of the modern Beaufort County. The Broad River enters from the north, and the sound is bordered by Port Royal, Parris, and Trench's (Hilton Head) Island, and Lady's and Saint Helena Islands. Beaufort and numerous plantations are individually labeled. Gascoigne's chart was one of the most detailed and accurate of any such map of the American coastline. Captain John Gascoigne conducted extensive surveys in the region, assisted by his brother James, in 1728, aboard the HMS Alborough. The next year, this chart was altered by Francis Swaine, whose manuscript chart was ultimately pr