Through Scotch Plains & Springfield. No 67, C / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Road from Forks Passaic to Scotch Plains A, B C & D. 67
Through Scotch plains and Springfield. No. 67 C

Road from Forks Passaic to Scotch Plains A, B C & D. 67
Through Scotch plains and Springfield. No. 67 C

1779

1 map : ms. ; 38 x 32 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 067, C

In ink on recto: "C". In pencil on recto:"No 67 C". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of South Orange, Milburn and Union in Essex County and of Springfield, Westfield and Fanwood in Somerset County, New Jersey. Shows roads running though Springfield, Branch Mills, Locust Grove, Scotch Plains and Netherwood. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, also landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, 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. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is earlier 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: "T M W" accompanied by dove.

Scale [ca. 1:34,000]

(W 74⁰25ʹ--W 74⁰17ʹ/N 40⁰43ʹ--N 40⁰37ʹ)

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