THE    BRADFORD     MAP
 

that sober-minded and slower-
paced truth is seldom, if ever,
able to overtake it. This deplor¬
able fact is well exemplified by
the singularly persistent repeti¬
tion of erroneous statements in
regard to the first map of this
City (printed in New York)
which is known to exist.

This map, the historical and top¬
ographical importance of which
is shown by the fact that scarcely
any account of our City has ever
been written that does not re¬
fer to, or reproduce it, was pub¬
lished, probably in 1731, by New
York's first established printer,
William  Bradford,^ from a sur-

*Also a bookbinder and paper maker, as is shown
by the advertisement in his "Gazette": " Printed
and sold by William Bradford in New York, where
advertisements are taken  in, and where you may