General Contraction 4 Miles to an Inch. No 54 / Robt. Erskine F.R.S. Del. 1779 ; by Rt Erskine ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants [signed ed.]
General Contraction (4 Miles to an Inch): Litchfield, Conn. to the Navesink Highlands

General Contraction (4 Miles to an Inch): Litchfield, Conn. to the Navesink Highlands

1779

1 map : ms. ; 63 x 45 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 054 signed

In pencil on verso: "for F. de Peyster Esq." This is a later text; Frederic De Peyster was an officer of the New-York Historical Society during the mid-19th century. Includes inset "Continuation on the same Scale" covering central Connecticut. Military topographic map. Covers northern New Jersey, the southernmost tip of New York and western Connecticut. Shows roads, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink on laid paper. Pencil on verso not original. Prime meridian New York. Sheet bears neither a recto nor a verso title; title proper taken from index sheet filed at head of series. Title number from map verso and index sheet both. First statement of responsibility and date from lower left corner of map recto. Two additional statements of responsibility, date confimation, scale, series title and series number from index sheet. Edition statement appended to series number by cataloger. Shows some relief by hachures. Soiled, foxed, creased, frayed and abraded. Paper yellowed; probably from sunlight. 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: "Pz". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American Maps and Map Makers of the Revolution, p. 17-22.

Scale (1:250,000) 4 Mi. to an In.

(W 74⁰30ʹ--W72⁰35ʹ/N 41⁰50ʹ--N40⁰25ʹ)

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