U.S. Map at Jackson's birth (following title page in extra-illustrated Life)

This fold-out map, inserted between two pages of the volume, was drawn around 1770 “from the Best Authorities” by Thomas Bowen, an English geographer, and was “engraved for Jones’s Geographical Grammar.” It depicts the North American continent roughly as it looked at the time of Jackson’s birth in 1767. After the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War, the continent was divided between British and Spanish holdings. The Thirteen Colonies are drawn in loosely, and the future state that would become so linked to Jackson's adult life - Tennessee - is labeled simply “Cherokees.”

U.S. Map at Jackson's birth (following title page in extra-illustrated Life)

From extra-illustrated copy of A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson [catalog record]