Creased, torn, 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. Imperfect: lacking 2 x 2 cm. at center. In pencil on recto: "No 73 1st" (twice). Military topographic map. Covers Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Shows roads running through Norristown, North Wales, New Britain and Doylestown. 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 and series title also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Series numbering inferred by cataloger. Watermark: "T M W" accompanied by dove, similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 658 amd 659. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-22.
