From Potterstown towards Hickory Tavern. No 77, A / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Roads by Potterstown, Hickery Tavern, Muscanecunk Mountain, Reddingtown Johnstons Forge, Easton A. B. C. D from letter B to the Road from Corriels to Morristown E from near Henry Camps on the Road from Corriels to Morristown to Reddington. 77
From Potters Town towards Hickory Tavn. No 77-A

Roads by Potterstown, Hickery Tavern, Muscanecunk Mountain, Reddingtown Johnstons Forge, Easton A. B. C. D from letter B to the Road from Corriels to Morristown E from near Henry Camps on the Road from Corriels to Morristown to Reddington. 77
From Potters Town towards Hickory Tavn. No 77-A

1779

1 map : ms. ; 33 x 42 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 077, A

In pencil on recto: "No 77 A". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Clinton and Union in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Potterstown, Lebanon and Clinton (formerly Taylors Mills). Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, 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. 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: "CC" beneath crown; the second C is reversed and interlocked with the first. No similar mark shown in Gravell and Miller.

Scale [ca. 1:34,000]

(W 74⁰58ʹ--W 74⁰47ʹ/N 40⁰39ʹ--N 40⁰37ʹ)

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