This map, titled "A View of the Rivers Kennebec and Chaudière, with Colonel Arnold's Route to Quebec," appeared in the September 1776 edition of The London Magazine or Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer. It accompanied an article titled "An Authentic Journal of Occurrences Which Happened Within the Circle of Major Meigs’s Observations, in the Detachment Commanded by Col. (now General) Benedict Arnold, Consisting of Two Battalions Detached from the Provincial Army at Cambridge Against Quebec."

During the assault on Quebec, British forces captured Major Return J. Meigs Sr., and he was released through a prisoner exchange on January 10, 1777.