NOTE: The information provided here is supplementary to “Reflecting on the Price-Strother Map of North Carolina: An Uncommon Exercise for an Uncommon Map”, the history of this magnificent map published in the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
There are four NC Map Blog supplements to the MESDA article:
Price-Strother map legal documents
Price-Strother map of NC: reviews and advertisements
Price-Strother map in contemporary letters
Price-Strother: a final letter (this page, scroll down)
Jonathan Price’s debt to the State transferred to the
University of North Carolina Board of Trustees and
Price’s stirring letter to the Trustees.
(If you don’t read anything else, at the very least, skip to the end and read Price’s letter.)