Tindall Map

This is all we have of Tindall’s first “draught” of Virginia and a journal of the voyage, documents he sent to England from Virginia on 22 June 1607, now missing. The map reveals a master cartographer if we forgive him for putting south at the top. Tindall is listed among the “mariners,” Smith is listed among the “gentlemen,” aboard Newport’s shallop on the first expedition up the James River to the falls in May 1607. It is easy to speculate that Smith, spending time in close quarters, learned a great deal about mapmaking and taking “heights” with an astrolabe from this man. Unreadable here, the map is transcribed in Jamestown Narratives, p. 129.