Image ID:2456
Description:
Prideaux Bay (Braddock Bay): Dating to circa 1760, this plan of Lake Ontario was copied and enlarged from a French original, with portions of the north shore corrected and the south shore from Oswego to Niagara based on a sketch by Captain Thomas Sowers. The manuscript map was produced by British military cartographer Lieutenant Dietrich Brehm, incorporating Sowers’s survey information and apparently drawing upon an earlier French map. Executed in pen, ink, and watercolor, the map depicts the Lake Ontario shoreline during the closing years of the French and Indian War and can be dated in part by its references to the “Ruins of Frontenac,” destroyed in 1758, and the site “Where Fort Toronto stood,” abandoned and burned in 1759. Of particular significance to the history of Greece, New York, the map clearly identifies present-day Braddock Bay as “Prideauxs Bay,” providing contemporary cartographic evidence that the bay was associated with Brigadier General John Prideaux, commander of the 1759 British expedition against Fort Niagara. The name appears to have been given to the bay after Prideaux and his force of approximately 3,200 soldiers encamped there in July 1759 while traveling west toward the siege of Fort Niagara. Prideaux was killed there approximately two weeks later. The subsequent corruption or “barbarous mispronunciation” of the bay’s name during the late eighteenth century may have contributed to its eventual association with British General Edward Braddock and the emergence of its present name, Braddock Bay. The map was formerly owned by Jeffery Amherst and later the Royal United Services Institute and is now held by the British Library. It can be viewed here: https://collections.leventhalmap.org/.../commonwealth.
Prideaux Bay (Braddock Bay): Dating to circa 1760, this plan of Lake Ontario was copied and enlarged from a French original, with portions of the north shore corrected and the south shore from Oswego to Niagara based on a sketch by Captain Thomas Sowers. The manuscript map was produced by British military cartographer Lieutenant Dietrich Brehm, incorporating Sowers’s survey information and apparently drawing upon an earlier French map. Executed in pen, ink, and watercolor, the map depicts the Lake Ontario shoreline during the closing years of the French and Indian War and can be dated in part by its references to the “Ruins of Frontenac,” destroyed in 1758, and the site “Where Fort Toronto stood,” abandoned and burned in 1759. Of particular significance to the history of Greece, New York, the map clearly identifies present-day Braddock Bay as “Prideauxs Bay,” providing contemporary cartographic evidence that the bay was associated with Brigadier General John Prideaux, commander of the 1759 British expedition against Fort Niagara. The name appears to have been given to the bay after Prideaux and his force of approximately 3,200 soldiers encamped there in July 1759 while traveling west toward the siege of Fort Niagara. Prideaux was killed there approximately two weeks later. The subsequent corruption or “barbarous mispronunciation” of the bay’s name during the late eighteenth century may have contributed to its eventual association with British General Edward Braddock and the emergence of its present name, Braddock Bay. The map was formerly owned by Jeffery Amherst and later the Royal United Services Institute and is now held by the British Library. It can be viewed here: https://collections.leventhalmap.org/.../commonwealth.
Location:Lake Ontario
Date:1760
Source:Royal United Services Institute
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Roads & Maps
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Date Added:October 27, 2026
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