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Description
Heavily soiled, frayed, 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 recto: "No 73 4th". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of East Amwell, Raritan and Readington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Larison Corner, Reaville, Three Bridges and Pleasant Run. 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 and series title also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Series numbering inferred by cataloger. Watermark: "J WHATMAN". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-22.
PID
nyhs:243318
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004456
n000120m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
From near Ringoes, crossing Newshannock River and the South Branch of Rariton - towards Morristown. No 73 - 4th / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Digital Format
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 54 x 35 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W74⁰52ʹ--W74.⁰47ʹ/N40⁰34ʹ--N40⁰26ʹ)