Road from the Short Hills to the Wheat Sheaf, on the Post Road. No 74, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
From Bound Brook, Quibbletown, S[hort Hills, Elizabethtown, Woodbridge], Amboy, B[onumtown] Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghtons Bridge A, B, C, D, E, & F. Sheets. 74
Road From the Short Hills to the Wheat Sheaf on the Post Road. B - 74
Road from the Short Hills to Wheat Sheaf, on the Post Road
From Boundbrook, Quibbletown ... Elizabethtown, Wood Bridge, Amboy ... Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghton’s Bridge - A, B, C, D, E, & F
From Bound Brook, Quibbletown, S[hort Hills, Elizabethtown, Woodbridge], Amboy, B[onumtown] Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghtons Bridge A, B, C, D, E, & F. Sheets. 74
Road From the Short Hills to the Wheat Sheaf on the Post Road. B - 74
Road from the Short Hills to Wheat Sheaf, on the Post Road
From Boundbrook, Quibbletown ... Elizabethtown, Wood Bridge, Amboy ... Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghton’s Bridge - A, B, C, D, E, & F
In pencil on recto: "No 74 B". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Linden, Clark, Fanwood, Plainfield and Westfield in Union County and of Raritan in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Willow Grove, Picton and Wheatsheaf. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled, 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. 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. Bracketed text of index title as read by Heusser ca. 1828 or as inferred by cataloger. Watermark: "T M W" accompanied by dove, similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 658 and 659. References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 17-22; Heusser, Albert H. George Washington’s map maker, p. 249-256.
