The Inscription on this map reads:
To George Washington
President of the United States of America
This
Magnetic Atlas or Variation Chart
is humbly inscribed by John Churchman.
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- Benjamin Chew Jr.
- correspondence
- maps
- land
- "Bad Ben"
- Samuel Chew
- food and drink
- illness
- slavery
- surveys
- Benjamin Chew III
- William White Chew
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- processing
- Anne S.P. Chew
- Anthony B. Chew
- Civil War
- Frisby family
- James M. Mason
- Mary J. B. Chew
- Richard Penn
- Samuel Chew Jr.
- Springetsbury Manor
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- completion
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- farming
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- fundraising
- home remedies
- melodrama
- plantations
- recipes
- speculation
- the joys of processing
- women
- Camden
- David S. Brown and Co.
- Gloucester City
- Henry B. Chew
- James Wilson
- John Chew
- John E. Howard
- New Jersey
- PA/MD boundary dispute
- Pennsylvania
- South Philadelphia history
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