Road from Quibbletown to Amboy; and places by bearings. No 55 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants ; pr Capt. Scull.

Badly 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 ink on verso: "Elizabeth Amboy A", "No. 55". In pencil on recto: "No 55". Military topographic map. Covers Somerset and Middlesex Counties in New Jersey and Richmond County in New York. Shows roads running through Milltown, South Branch, Raritan, Finderne, Hillsboro, Millstone, Boundbrook, Newmarket, Samptown, South Plainfield, New Brunswick, Metuchen, Bonham Town, Fairfild Union, Perth Amboy and Elizabeth. Also shows "American Camp," buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title, both statements of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: "J Bassuet" and crest twice, "FIN M D" once. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.