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Road from Mount Bethel Meeting House to near Quibbletown and from Quibbletown to Brunswick. No 70, D / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

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. Sheathed in mylar. Imperfect: lacking small piece at lower left corner. In pencil on recto: "No 70 D". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Warren and North Plainfield in Somerset County and of Piscataway in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Mt. Bethel, Newmarket, Newtown and New Brunswick. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper.

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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. Sheathed in mylar. Imperfect: lacking small piece at lower left corner. In pencil on recto: "No 70 D". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Warren and North Plainfield in Somerset County and of Piscataway in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Mt. Bethel, Newmarket, Newtown and New Brunswick. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Scale distorted in parts; varies between ca. 1:30,000 and ca. 1:40,000. 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. 658 and 659.
PID
nyhs:243307
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004461
n000109m
Owning Institution
Full Title
Road from Mount Bethel Meeting House to near Quibbletown and from Quibbletown to Brunswick. No 70, D / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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Digital Origin
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 39 x 31 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W74⁰32ʹ--W74.⁰26ʹ/N40⁰39ʹ--N40⁰29ʹ)
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