Hough, Benjamin, and Alexander Bourne:

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A MAP OF THE STATE OF OHIO FROM ACTUAL SURVEY. The second map devoted to the state of Ohio, a greatly expanded and revised version of the first, issued in 1807. Hough and Bourne were General Land Office surveyors who took over and improved the work of the surveyor general of the United States, Jared F. Mansfield. Because of his position, Mansfield had access to original working materials of government agents. However, when he issued his Map of the State of Ohio From the Returns in the Office of the Surveyor General (1807), he issued it privately. Hough and Bourne evidently bought the copyright to Mansfield's work after he was killed in the War of 1812, then substantially expanded it, evidently based on their own work. This map, with their revisions, is "the first map of Ohio to show all the actual surveys within the inhabited part of the state" (Ristow). Lands belonging to Native American tribes are shown in the northwest part of the state, described as "unsurveyed lands on which the Indian title is not yet extinguished." Also located is a settlement called "Negro Town," which by 1815 was likely less than a decade old, and which contained a handful of African-American families, living in proximity to members of the Wyandot tribe. The location of several military forts are shown as well. "This large and detailed map of Ohio shows rapid progress of the township grid from the original surveys in the eastern part of the state in the 1790s. In southern Ohio some of the areas claim

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