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Between Albany and Fishkills thro Rhynbeck. No 93, R / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants ; [P]r Simeon DeWitt.

Foxed, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In erased pencil on recto: "No 93 R". In ink on verso: "R R R". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York. Shows roads running through Rhinebeck and Staatsburg. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures.

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Foxed, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In erased pencil on recto: "No 93 R". In ink on verso: "R R R". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Red Hook, Rhinebeck and Hyde Park in Dutchess County, New York. Shows roads running through Rhinebeck and Staatsburg. 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 for Erskine, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Statement of responsibility for DeWitt written in an unidentified hand on verso of map. Watermark: "T & C" accompanied by plow; similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 635 and (less closely) 105. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-21.
English
PID
nyhs:243393
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004436
n000194m
Language
Owning Institution
Full Title
Between Albany and Fishkills thro Rhynbeck. No 93, R / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants ; [P]r Simeon DeWitt.
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 42 x 34 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W73⁰56ʹ--W73.⁰52ʹ/N41⁰59ʹ--N41⁰52ʹ)
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