Past the White House to the Cross roads towards Morristown, crossing Lamatunck River. No 73 - 5th / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
From skeepack Road Cross Corriells ferry [t]o Morristown. 7 sheets. 73
Past the White House to the Cross Roads Toward Morristown Crossing Lamatunck River. 5 Sheet No. 73
Past the White House to the Crossroads, towards Morristown, crossing Lamatunck River

From skeepack Road Cross Corriells ferry [t]o Morristown. 7 sheets. 73
Past the White House to the Cross Roads Toward Morristown Crossing Lamatunck River. 5 Sheet No. 73
Past the White House to the Crossroads, towards Morristown, crossing Lamatunck River

1779

1 map : ms. ; 55 x 38 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 073, 5th

Foxed, 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. In pencil on recto: "No 73 5th". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Bedminster in Somerset County and of Readington and Tewksbury in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through White House, Lamington and Greater Crossroads. 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: "G R" under shield, similar to Gravell and Miller foreign watermark no. 301. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-22.

Scale [ca. 1:33,000]

(W 74⁰47ʹ--W 74⁰40ʹ/N 40⁰41ʹ--N 40⁰34ʹ)

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