Morristown, Bottlehill, Chatham, Spring field, Elizabeth town, Raway, Westfield towards Short Hills A, B & C
Morristown, Bottlehill, Chatham, Springfield, Elizabeth town, Raway, Westfield towards Short Hills A, B & C

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 75, A

Erskine, Robert
1735-1780
De Witt, Simeon
1756-1834
De Witt, Richard Varrick
United States
Continental Army.
Surveying Dept.

1779

18th century

(W 74⁰30ʹ--W 74⁰20ʹ/N 40⁰48ʹ--N 40⁰43ʹ).

Buildings
Landforms
Landowners
Roads
Rivers
History
Campaigns

New Jersey
Passaic River Valley (N.J.)
Morris County (N.J.)
Essex County (N.J.)
Union County (N.J.)

map
Early works to 1800.

1 map : ms. ; 38 x 32 cm.

Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Morris and Chatham in Morris County, Milburn in Essex County and Union in Summit County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Morristown and Chatham. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams.
Shows relief by hachures.
Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title, 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.
Watermarks: "TMW" accompanied by dove, similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 658 and 659.
Stained, 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: 16 x 14 cm. at lower left corner cut out after title written on verso.
Fragment of original title in ink on verso: "Roa...."
In pencil on recto: "No 75 A"