Road from Peter Schuylers to the Forks and Horse Neck at Henry Pierce’s, + from the Forks to To[t]oway Bridge, past the Great Falls of the Passaick. No 48, 2nd / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Road from Rockaway Bridge to Horseneck to Totawa falls and up to Pompton three pieces. 48
From Rockaway Bridge to Horseneck to Totawa falls & up to Pompton 3 p,s’ 48
Road from [D]r Peter Schuylers to the Forks + Horse Neck at Henry Peircs & from the Forks to Totoway Bridge Past the Great Falls of the Passaic. No. 48, 2d

Road from Rockaway Bridge to Horseneck to Totawa falls and up to Pompton three pieces. 48
From Rockaway Bridge to Horseneck to Totawa falls & up to Pompton 3 p,s’ 48
Road from [D]r Peter Schuylers to the Forks + Horse Neck at Henry Peircs & from the Forks to Totoway Bridge Past the Great Falls of the Passaic. No. 48, 2d

1778

1 map on several assembled sheets : ms. ; 44 x 49 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 048, 2nd

Also in ink on verso: "N 48". In pencil on recto: "No 48 2nd". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Little Falls, Manchester and Wayne in Passaic County and of Pequannac in Morris County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Pompton Plains, Wayne, Mountain View, Two Bridges, Fairfield, Clinton and Totowa. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on two pieces laid paper and one piece wove paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, creased, foxed and abraded. Razor cuts and pinpricks for copying. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is 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: "L V Gerrevink", crest, and countermark "IV" on largest piece; crest alone on second piece.

Scale [ca. 1:24,000]

(W 74⁰19ʹ--W74⁰10ʹ/N 40⁰58ʹ--N40⁰50ʹ)

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M004571
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