From Sawpitts to Stanwich, Stamford Bedford, & Pine’s Bridge on Croton River. No. 24 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants, inset.
From Sawpitts to Stanwich, Stamford Bedford, and Pine’s Bridge on Croton River
From Saw Pits to Stamford Bedford, Crotton (several sheets joined) 24
From Sawpits to Horseneck Stanford Bedford & Pine’s Bridge on Croton River & Stanwich. No 24
From Saw-Pitts to Stanwick, Stamford, Bedford & Pine Bridge on Croton River
Military topographic map. Covers the towns of Yorktown, Newcastle, Bedford, North Castle and Pound Ridge in eastern Westchester County, New York, and the towns of Stamford and Greenwich in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The map itself gives Stamford as "Stanford" and the Mill or Rippowam River as the "Stanford River." It shows roads, buildings and owners’ names, also landforms and streams. Maps shows relief by hachures. Titles proper from recto and recto of inset are the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Titles from versos are in Erskine’s hand and may be cited as such. Index titles, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Includes an 18 x 28 cm. inset map, numbered on recto 24 2d, covering the town of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut and the town of North Castle, Westchester County, New York; King Street runs along the border between New York and Connecticut. Point "A" of inset matches point "A" of main map. Pen-and-ink of two different kinds, one greatly faded. Also pencil; erasures at Field Point appear to be original. Seven sheets of laid paper pasted together, an eighth sheet is pasted at two corners only atop the rest. Three additional sheets at lower left and lower right are wove paper; the cartouche is written across wove and laid papers both. Watermarks: three "S & K", one "W&BO 1800" and, on inset, a crest. Stained, foxed, creased, frayed, stained and abraded. Cut into two pieces. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Some ink is faded. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto: "No 24". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.
