Maps Useful to Mic’s Mt-DNA Journey

MT-DNA American Migrations

The following maps are from, Map Guide to American Migration Routes 1735-1815, by William Dollarhide, published 1997 by Heritage Quest, a division of AGLL, Bountiful, UT. For an explanation and history of each map, refer to the book.

The King’s Highway 1735-1750 era Boston to Charleston, SC

Colonial Roads to 1750

New York Migrations 1700’s – 1850

State Land Cessions 1787-1802

The Ohio Country 1878-1800

The National Road 1818-1838 Baltimore to St Louis

New Orleans to Washington 1806The Ways South After 1815

MT-DNA American Colonial Settlement

The following maps are from another great book by William Dollarhide, British Origins of American Colonists 1629-1775, published 1997 by AGLL, Bountiful, UT. In addition to the American maps in this book, there are maps of suggested places in the British Isles and Europe where immigrants to America may have originated.

American Colonies 1607-1626

New England Settlements 1620-1648

Chesapeake Settlements 1607-1675

Quaker Settlements 1675-1715

U.S. Settlement areas of the Scottish-British borderers by 1790

Maps of the United States at various years 1790-1870

I have entered a link to FamilySearch.org https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Red_Book:_American_State,_County,_and_Town_Sources

This link will take you to Ancestry’s Red Book which has state maps showing each of a given state’s counties.

On that same page, scroll down and there are helpful links offering suggestions how to research a given state.

The following maps come from Map Guide to the, U.S. Federal Censuses 1790-1920, by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide, published 1987 and reprinted several times since, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD.

These maps represent the states of the United States as they were in each federal census 1790-1920

1790

1800

1810

1820

1830

1840

1850

1860

1870-1880

Maps of Townships and Counties of selected states

The following maps in this section are taken from Township Atlas of the United States compiled and edited by John L. Andriot by Documents index, Inc in 1987, McLean, Virginia. These maps show the minor civil divisions and municipalities in the various states, mainly New England states where Mic and his matches have Mt-DNA connections.

Also, for the Southern States below (Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, the maps are taken from Ancestry’s Red Book: American State, County and Town Sources edited by Alice Eichholtz and published by Ancestry 1989, Provo, UT