This cartouche adorns the l775 map of Virginia by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson. This map is considered the best cartographic representation of Virginia in the eighteenth century. Both Fry and Jefferson were surveyors. Fry taught mathematics at the College of William and Mary. Peter Jefferson was  the father of Thomas Jefferson.

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