Roads from Pompton towards Morristown. No 46, 1st sheet ; From Warmley’s to Ogdens Colehouse, to join Mr. DeWitt. No 46, 2nd sheet / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Road from Pompton towards Morristown. 46

From Warmsley’s to Ogdens Cole House, to join Mr. DeWitt
Roads from Pompton Towards Morristown 1st Sheet. No 46
From Warmsleys to Ogdens Colehouse to Join Mr. DeWitt. No 46

Road from Pompton towards Morristown. 46 From Warmsley’s to Ogdens Cole House, to join Mr. DeWitt
Roads from Pompton Towards Morristown 1st Sheet. No 46
From Warmsleys to Ogdens Colehouse to Join Mr. DeWitt. No 46

1778

2 maps on 2 assembled sheets : ms. ; 43 x 35 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 046, 1st-2nd sheets

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 46 1st". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Pequannc and Montville in Morris County, Pompton and Wayne in Passaic County and Caldwell in Essex County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Pompton Lakes, Pompton, Lincoln Park and Montville. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Second sheet pasted to first as inset; it appears to cover an area immediately north of the main map. Shows relief by hachures. Titles proper from recto are the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Titles from verso are in Erskine’s hand and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: S & K. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.

Scale [ca. 1:30,000]

(W 74⁰23ʹ--W74⁰16ʹ/N 41⁰02ʹ--N40⁰52ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004492
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