(Continuation) From Chester to Bethlehem. No 69-9th / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
From near Chester to Bethleham 10 Sheets marked 1st, 2d. 3d. &c. 69

From near Chester to Bethleham 10 Sheets marked 1st, 2d. 3d. &c. 69

1779

1 map : ms. ; 33 x 41 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 069, 9th

In pencil on recto: "No 69 9th". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Harmony and Lopatcong in Warren County, New Jersey, and of Easton and Bethlehem in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Phillipsburg, N.J., Easton and Farmersville, Pennsylvania. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, creased 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 on recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title number also occurs on verso in Erskine’s hand. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermarks: "W H" beneath lily, similar to no. 693 in Gravell, Thomas L. and George Miller. Catalogue of American watermarks 1690-1835. New York: 1979.

Scale [ca. 1:33,000]

(W 75⁰18ʹ--W 75⁰07ʹ/N 40⁰45ʹ--N 40⁰37ʹ)

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