Sktch of the Country about New Windsor, and the roads intersecting it, with names of the principal inhabitants.

Foxed, 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. In pencil on verso: "for F De Peyster Esq." DePeyster was a 19th century official of the New York Historical Society. Military topographic map. Covers the towns of New Windsor, Newburg, Cornwall and Blooming Grove in Orange County, New York. Shows roads, some buildings and owners' names, streams and landforms. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Tentatively attributed to DeWitt and dated based on comparison to his map, "The Winter-Cantonment of the American Army ... 1783." The style of hachures is fairly distinctive among American maps of this period. Title proper is probably a 19th or 20th century addition. It is in pencil. Watermark: Whatman crest with pendant initials "G R". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 18.