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Foxed, creased, frayed and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In erased pencil on recto: "No 104 B". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Passaic and Morris in Morris County and of Bernard in Somerset County, New Jersey. Marks and lables troop positions at Morristown. Also shows roads, buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Patch at right corner is later, wove finish paper. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is in Erskine's hand and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: "[POTT]S & [REYNO]LDS," accompanied by woman seated on plow and holding banner "PEACE AND UNITY." Similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 563 and 564.
PID
nyhs:243443
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004658
n000241m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
Road from Morristown thro' Jockey Hollow. No 104, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Date Created
1780
Date Issued
1780
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 31 x 32 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W74⁰34ʹ--W74.⁰29ʹ/N40⁰48ʹ--N40⁰44ʹ)