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Detailed map of Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Harbour of Chebucto.

The map of Kingston Harbor includes depths, places to drop anchor, landmarks, and ways to enter ports, as well as descriptions of how to pilot between the ports. In other words, it is a navigation chart.

Portrait of Catherine Schuyler, wife of John Schuyler, in her thirties, wearing a fashionable gown.

Porcelain; bird's nest containing two eggs, built from separate straws and twigs; white glaze.

New Orleans

Newbern (also New Bern), North Carolina

A British medal with Dutch inscriptions depicting the Battle of Rhode Island. The medal was struck as a manner of propoganda, attempting to dissuade the Dutch from joining the Treaty of Armed Neutrality.

Newport, Rhode Island

This June 1775 page from the North Carolina Gazette contextualizes Philip Dawe's satirical critique of the October 1774 Edenton Tea Party. It shows explicit references to slavery—underlining the continued importance of the practice to the North…

An ad in the Public Advertiser, January 28, 1766. Mr. John Dunlop seeking contact with the captain or crew of the Jolly Princess, a ship that traveled from Barbados to Bristol in 1762 and was briefly detained by a French letter of marque ship.