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From Johnsons Upper Mills to Pittstown + Ringoe's. No 119, C / S DeWitt Geographer to the Army of the United States ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Date of 1780 or 1781 based on verso text to sheet 119,F of series. First statement of responsibility from verso text on sheet 119,F of series is echoed on verso of this sheet: "DeWitt DeWitt DeWitt SD SD SD DeWitt SD DeWitt" The map itself is labeled at two points, "Surveyed by Captn McMurray." Military topographic map; right segment fits north of the left one. Covers the townships of Lebanon, Bethlehem, Union and Franklin in Hunterdon County, and of Washington in Warren County, New Jersey.

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Date of 1780 or 1781 based on verso text to sheet 119,F of series. First statement of responsibility from verso text on sheet 119,F of series is echoed on verso of this sheet: "DeWitt DeWitt DeWitt SD SD SD DeWitt SD DeWitt" The map itself is labeled at two points, "Surveyed by Captn McMurray." Military topographic map; right segment fits north of the left one. Covers the townships of Lebanon, Bethlehem, Union and Franklin in Hunterdon County, and of Washington in Warren County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through New Hampton, Junction, Charlestown, Norton, Perryville, Jutland, Pittston, Quakertown, Croton and Ringos. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled , creased 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. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is contemporaneous with map and may be cited as such. Index title, second statement of responsibility, series title and series numbering also contemporaneous, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: "J WHATMAN" accompanied by crest (no pendent initials).
PID
nyhs:243465
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004649
n000263m
Owning Institution
Full Title
From Johnsons Upper Mills to Pittstown + Ringoe's. No 119, C / S DeWitt Geographer to the Army of the United States ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Date Created
1780 to 1781
Date Issued
1780 to 1781
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 122 x 35 cm.
on sheet 61 x 49 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W74⁰59ʹ--W74.⁰52ʹ/N40⁰44ʹ--N40⁰25ʹ)
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