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In ink on recto: "No. 86. B2d". Includes texts. To the east, "for the Remarks of the Road see Rough Draft No 5[1]." To the west, "For the Remarks of this Road See Rough Draft No 69." Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Chester and Warwick in Orange County, New York. Shows roads running through East Chester, Sugarloaf, Warwick, Bellvale, Mt. Peter and Dutch Hollow. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. No title on map recto or verso. Title as given, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. No title proper on map recto or verso. Title as given, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained 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. Watermark: "GR" beneath shield, similar to Gravell and Miller foreign watermark no. 301. 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.
PID
nyhs:243346
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004507
n000148m
Genre
Owning Institution
Type
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Full Title
From Junes to Arches & Warwich A. B & B2nd. No 86, B, 2nd by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants [rev. ed.].
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Date Created
1779
Date Issued
1779
Extent
1 map : ms. ; 53 x 38 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W74⁰22ʹ--W74.⁰14ʹ/N41⁰23ʹ--N41⁰12ʹ)