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Hello, I am looking for information regarding the erroneous placement of Lake Michigan in some of John Melish's early maps showing Indiana. Indiana was the first of his short lived individual maps of the states, done in 1817. This 1817 map shows Lake Michigan in the middle of the northern boundary of the state. He improved the map in 1819 and places Lake Michigan in the correct north-western corner of the state. Both of these maps show that the surveys were furnished by Burr Bradley, perhaps the error was his? I cannot find any literature about this correction and what led to him misplacing the lake in his earlier map. Does anyone know of an article that discusses this? If not I am also curious to hear your theories. The 1817 Map of Indiana was not the first or only time he had made this mistake. I also have an 1813 Melish map of the U.S., found in the front of his 1815 Traveller's Directory, which shows Lake Michigan dipping into Indiana right down the middle of the state. Thank you in advance Monique *************** Monique Howell Librarian - Indiana Collection Indiana State Library mohow...@library.in.gov
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