Vicinity of Fort Montgomery etc
Road from Suffrans to Junes, Kings Ferry Fort Montgomery &c. on the other side, Peeks kill, Tellers Point Tarrytown &c. Sheet A. B & C D Nichols hills N. Rr Butterhill &c E. Contras
Road from Suffrans to Junes, Kings Ferry Fort Montgomery etc. on the other side, Peeks kill, Tellers Point Tarrytown etc. Sheet A. B and C D Nichols hills North River Butterhill etc E. Contractions

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 1, B, pt. 2

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

1778

18th century

(W 74⁰02ʹ--W73⁰59ʹ/N 41⁰20ʹ--N41⁰17ʹ).

Roads
Rivers
Wetlands
Landforms
History
Campaigns

New York (State)
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Orange County (N.Y.)
Rockland County (N.Y.)
Fort Montgomery (Highlands, N.Y.)

map
Early works to 1800.

1 map : ms. ; 51 x 36 cm.

Military topographic map. Covers the towns of Stony Point in Rockland County and of Highland and Woodbury in Orange County, New York. Shows roads, forts, landforms, streams and wetlands.
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.
Watermark: lily, monogram.
Foxed, creased, frayed 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 1 B."
In ink on verso "Part of No. 1 Large Scale N.1.B"
Unfinished sketch also on verso.