Road from Garrison's Tavern to Somerset Ct He. and from Somerset to Vanness's Mills, + from Van Vess's Mills to near Boundbrook. No. 71, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

Creased, torn 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 recto "No 71 B". Military topographic maps. Upper map covers the township of Hillsboro in Somerset County, New Jersey; it shows roads running through Millstone (Someret). Lower map covers the townships of Hillsboro, Bridgewater and Franklin, also in Somerset County; it shows roads running through South Broundbrook and East Millstone. Both maps also show 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. Watermark: "T M W" accompanied by dove, similar to Gravell and Miller American watermark nos. 659 and 659. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22; Heusser, Albert H. George Washington's map maker, p. 249-256.