John Mitchell (geographer)
Colonial American doctor and botanist (1711-1768) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named John Mitchell, see John Mitchell (disambiguation).
John Mitchell (April 13, 1711 – February 29, 1768) was a colonial American physician and botanist. He created the most comprehensive and perhaps largest 18th-century map of eastern North America, known today as the Mitchell Map. First published in 1755, in conjunction with the imminent Seven Years' War, the map was subsequently used during the Treaty of Paris (1783) to define the boundaries of the newly independent United States and has been resolving border disputes since.
The standard author abbreviation Mitch. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]