This beautiful map of Boston Harbor was done by the surveyor John Hills in the 1770s. This map is unique because it was a manuscript map, done with pen and ink and watercolor. Manuscript maps are special because they are hand drawn maps and are almost always one of a kind. This map is oriented with north toward the upper left corner of the map. This original map was given to the Library of Congress as part of William Faden’s map collection in 1862. William Faden was an extremely well known English cartographer, mapmaker and publisher in the late 18th century.