From Ponds Church to Paramus, Totowa, Pompton. No 56, A / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

In pencil on recto: "No 56 A". Military topographic map. Covers the township of Franklin in Bergen County, New Jersey; "Chrystal pool" is now called Franklin Lake. Shows roads running through Pompton Lakes, Pompton, Oakland, Camp Gaw, Wykoff and Waldwick. Also shows 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. 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. Torn and frayed, soiled, foxed, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Lined with China paper. Sheathed in mylar. Watermarks: "GR" accompanied by Britannia; similar to Gravell and Miller foreign watermarks nos. 310 and 311. References: Heusser, Albert H. George Washington's Map Maker, p. 249-256.