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  2. Abel Buell - Wikipedia

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    Abel Buell (1742–1822), born in Killingworth, Connecticut, was a goldsmith, silversmith, jewelry designer, engraver, surveyor, printer, type manufacturer, mint master, textile miller, and counterfeiter in the American colonies. [1] In 1784, Buell published A New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Layd down from the latest ...

  3. Trinity Church on the Green - Wikipedia

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    In 1784, Buell published the first map of the new United States created and printed by an American. Ebenezer Chittenden (1726–1812) was an early American silversmith. He was born in Madison in 1726; he became a silversmith, and worked in Madison until moving to New Haven in 1770, possibly in company with his son-in-law and apprentice, Abel Buell.

  4. History of Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. state of Connecticut began as three distinct settlements of Puritans from Massachusetts and England; they combined under a single royal charter in 1663. Known as the "land of steady habits" for its political, social and religious conservatism, the colony prospered from the trade and farming of its ethnic English Protestant population.

  5. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Maps of Korea. Haedong Samgukdo. Cartography of Switzerland. Dufour Map (1863) Siegfried Map (1895–1926) Cartography of the United States. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (1562) New and Correct Map of the United States of North America Abel Buell (1784) Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1867)

  6. List of most expensive books and manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    Abel Buell: 1784 December 2010 [124] $3.6 $2.10 Letter from Szilard and Einstein to President Roosevelt. Typed letter written by Leo Szilard and signed by Albert Einstein warning that Nazi Germany might develop nuclear weapons and suggesting the US should start its own nuclear program. Leo Szilard: 1939 March 2002 [125] $2.2 $2.10

  7. The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke

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    Author, historian, founder and surveyor John Filson worked as a schoolteacher in Lexington, Kentucky and wrote The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke in 1784. The book is regarded as the first written history of Kentucky [ citation needed ] and features the first known map of the territory, dedicated to the Congress of the ...

  8. List of cartographers - Wikipedia

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    Abel Buell (1742–1822), published the first map of the new United States created by an American; Catharina Buijs (1714–1781), Dutch cartographer for the Dutch East India Company; Dimitrie Cantemir (Moldavia and Russia, 1673–1723) César-François Cassini de Thury (a.k.a. Cassini III, France, 1714–1784)

  9. Buell (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Buell (surname) Buell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abel Buell (1742–1822), goldsmith and counterfeiter in the American colonies. Al Buell (1910–1996), American pin-up artist. Alexander H. Buell (1801–1853), New York politician, U.S. congressman. Alice Standish Buell (1892–1960), American artist and printmaker.