Map of Carolana (sic) and of the River Meschacebe [Mississippi], A

From Daniel Coxe's 1741, "Description of the English Province of Carolana (sic), by the Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Lousiane." "Meschacebe" was an Indian name for the Mississippi River. This map shows land claimed by Dr. Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), one of the New Jersey proprietors and a private patentee of Carolina. Coxe, physician to King Charles II and Queen Anne of England, developed a scheme to establish an extensive English colony west of the Carolinas and was assisted in his various schemes by his son Daniel (1673-1739). In 1722 the younger Coxe first published the work exhibited here, which contains memoirs of traders and explorers collected by his father and set forth what is believed to be the first printed plan for a political consideration of the north American colonies. Apparently to avoid conflict with established settlements, Coxe claimed only the country west of the settled portion of Carolina. In October 1698 Coxe and several other proprietors dispatched an expedition from England to settle a British colony on the lower Mississippi. In 1699 a ship under the command of Captain Lewis Banks encountered Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, who informed Banks he was in French territory. Bienville claimed that a large fleet of French warships waited a short distance upriver and ordered the British to leave. Fooled by Bienville's bluff, Bank turned his ship around and sailed back down the river. The point in the river is still known as English Turn.

This map shows land claimed by Dr. Daniel Coxe (1640-1730), one of the New Jersey proprietors and a private patentee of Carolina. Coxe, a physician to King Charles II and Queen Anne of England, developed a scheme to establish an extensive English colony west of the Carolinas and was assisted in his various claims by his son Daniel (1673-1739). In 1722 the younger Coxe first published the work in which this map is published. The work contains memoirs of traders and explorers collected by his father and set forth what is believed to be the first printed plan for a political consideration of the North American colonies. Apparently to avoid conflict with established settlements, Coxe claimed only the country west of the settled portion of Carolina.

In October 1698 Coxe and several other proprietors detached an expedition from England to settle a British colony on the lower Mississippi River. The following year a ship under the command of Captain Lewis Banks encountered Jean Baptist Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, who informed Banks he was in French territory. Bienville claimed that a large fleet of French warships waited a short distance upriver and ordered the British to leave. Fooled by Bienville's bluff, Banks turned his ship around and sailed back down the river. The point in the river is still known as English Turn.