This map was Undertaken with the Approbation and at the Request of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; and is chiefly composed from Draughts, Charts, and Actual Surveys of different parts of His Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America; Great part of which have been lately taken by their Lordship’s Orders and transmitted to this office by the Governors and said colonies and others. Plantation Office, Feb 13, 1755 John Pownall Secretary
Map with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many new astonomical observations of the longitude as well as the latitude.
With the Bason and part of the Adjacent country shewing the principal encampments and works of the British Army commanded by major General Wolfe, and those of the French Army commanded by Lieut General the Marquis of Montcalm during the siege of that place in 1759
And the district of Gaspe Exhibiting the true range of highlands dividing the waters of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic and the imaginary ranges claimed by the British for the boundary of the state of Maine.
From the best existing materials; by authority of the provincial legislature with Adjacent parts of Canada, Nova Scotia and Maine compile and drawn by John Wilkinson, surveyor and civil engineer, associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. A.D. 1859