Road from the Wheat Sheaf thro’ Woodbridge to Amboy, + from Amboy towards Brunswick. No 74, D / 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
Title as given by Heusser: From Boundbrook, Quibbletown ... Elizabethtown, Wood Bridge, Amboy ... Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghton’s Bridge - A, B, C, D, E, & F
Road From the Sheaf of Wheat thro’ Woodbridge to Amboy & from Amboy Towards Brunswick D - 74
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 Title as given by Heusser: From Boundbrook, Quibbletown ... Elizabethtown, Wood Bridge, Amboy ... Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghton’s Bridge - A, B, C, D, E, & F
Road From the Sheaf of Wheat thro’ Woodbridge to Amboy & from Amboy Towards Brunswick D - 74
From Boundbrook, Quibbletown ... Elizabethtown, Wood Bridge, Amboy ... Piscataway, Brunswick, Somerset and Vanvoghton’s Bridge - A, B, C, D, E, & F
Foxed, creased, 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. In pencil on recto: "No 74 D". Military topographic map; righthand segment fits north of the lefthand one. Map covers the townships of Rahway and Linden in Union County and of Woodbridge in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Wheatsheaf, Rahway, Demorest, Woodbridge, Spa Spring, Amboy, Fairfield Union and Valentine Fords. 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. 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: Heusser, Albert H. George Washington’s map maker, p. 249-256.
