1754-1820.
Ellicott, a Quaker, was raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was a prosperous miller whose family founded Ellicott City, Maryland in 1775. Andrew Ellicott was trained to be a mathematician and surveyor. He conducted several large surveys with David Rittenhouse, the Philadelphia astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker. President Washington in 1791 asked Ellicott to survey the bounds of the District of Columbia. The following year Washington asked him to complete L'Enfant's plan for the city. Ellicott made some changes to L'Enfant's plan. He changed the alignment of Massachusetts Avenue, eliminated five short radial avenues, added two short radial avenues southeast and southwest of the Capitol, and named the city streets. In less than one month Ellicott had a plan ready for the engravers. A few months later Ellicott, like L'Enfant, found himself at odds with the Commissioners and resigned from the project.
Washington Map Society. Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Andrew Ellicott'.
Ca. 1597-1644.
Holländsk kartograf, son till Jodocus Hondius. Från 1643 övertog han utgivningen av Mercator-Hondius-atlasen. Förutom talrika utgåvor av denna, som han efter hand reviderade ganska grundligt, gav han 1627 ut en kopia av sin fars världskarta, och 1629 en karta över Brabant. 1636 kom hans svåger Joannes Janssonius (se denne) med i kartarbetet.
Thieme-Becker.
Död 1858.
Se under Robert Laurie.
Karta öfver Stockholm. - 1904.
Sound of Mull. Eastern portion. - London 1907.
