Caveat lector! This post was written some months ago after I had assembled a good collection of maps that spanned the founding of the colony of Ile St. Jean until its first destruction, at the hands of British Americans, in 1745. I happily wrote the post and moved on to the next topic, the maps from the period of the rebuilding of the colony after 1745 to its ultimate destruction in 1758 and the complete British take-over after the Treaty of Paris in 1763. What I did not foresee was the looming availability of a large collection of mostly undated manuscript maps of the region and of the Island held…