Continuation of Road [t]hrough the Clove, to Newbo[r]ough No 5 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Clove Continued to Newborrough. 5
Continuation of Road Through the Clove, To New Borough

Clove Continued to Newborrough. 5
Continuation of Road Through the Clove, To New Borough

1778

1 map on 2 joined sheets : ms. ; 41 x 35 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 005

In ink on both recto and verso: "No. 5". Military topographic map. Covers an area in the towns of New Windsor and Cornwall, Orange County, New York; "Murderers Creek" is now called Moodna Creek. Shows roads running through Newburg, New Windsor, Vailsgate, Idlewild and Houghton Farm. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Lower corner uses paper of a different origin. 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. Torn, foxed, 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. Watermark on main sheet: S & K. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.

Scale [ca. 1:32,000]

(W 74⁰10ʹ--W74⁰00ʹ/N 41⁰30ʹ--N41⁰23ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004559
n000022m

Landforms--New York (State)--Maps
Landowners--New York (State)--Maps
Rivers--New York (State)--Maps
Roads--New York (State)--Maps

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