From Elizabeth Town Point to Totowa : (2 Miles to an Inch) No 82 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Contraction from Elizabethtownpoint to Totawa : 2 Miles an Inch. 82
Contraction from Elizabethtow[npoint] to Totowa : 2 Miles to an Inch. No 82

Contraction from Elizabethtownpoint to Totawa : 2 Miles an Inch. 82
Contraction from Elizabethtow[npoint] to Totowa : 2 Miles to an Inch. No 82

1779

1 map : ms. ; 36 x 29 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 082

In pencil on recto: "No 82". Military topographic map. Covers parts of Passaic, Essex and Union counties in New Jersey. Shows roads running through Elizabeth, Newark, Belleville, Clifton, South Paterson and Totowa. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled, 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. Watermark: "TMW" accompanied by dove; similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 658 and 659.

Scale [1:30,000] 2 Mi. to an In.

(W 74⁰13ʹ--W 74⁰06ʹ/N 40⁰57ʹ--N 40⁰38ʹ)

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