Road from near B Tavern to the White House. No 72, A / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Road from Duyckinks Mill to the White house Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck A and B. 72
From Duyckinks Mill to the White house Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck A & B. 72
Road from near Bartrons Tavern to the White House. A No-72
From Duyckinks Mill White House Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck

Road from Duyckinks Mill to the White house Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck A and B. 72
From Duyckinks Mill to the White house Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck A & B. 72
Road from near Bartrons Tavern to the White House. A No-72
From Duyckinks Mill White House Potterstown Germantown Lamatunck

1779

1 map : ms. ; 29 x 33 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 072, A

Foxed, creased, cracked 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 72 A". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Branchburg and Readington in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through White House and North Branch. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. 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: "T M W" accompanied by dove, similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 658 and 659. References: Heusser, Albert H. George Washington’s map maker, p. 249-256.

Scale [ca. 1:34,000]

(W 74⁰47ʹ--W 74⁰40ʹ/N 40⁰38ʹ--N 40⁰36ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004564
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