Road from Penny Town to Slack’s Ferry and from do. to Trenton and Howell’s Ferries. No 87, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Road from Penny Town to Slack’s Ferry and from ditto to Trenton and Howell’s Ferries. No 87, B
Road from near Somerset [Court] house by Penny town, [to the] Different Ferrys to Trenton, to Bristol Philadelphia, Coopers Ferry, Mount holly, Allenstown, Cranburry & Brunswick A, B, C, D, E, F, G, & H. & from Chestnut Hill to Philada. 87
Road from Penny Town to Slack’s Ferry and from ditto to Trenton and Howell’s Ferries. No 87, B
Road from near Somerset [Court] house by Penny town, [to the] Different Ferrys to Trenton, to Bristol Philadelphia, Coopers Ferry, Mount holly, Allenstown, Cranburry & Brunswick A, B, C, D, E, F, G, & H. & from Chestnut Hill to Philada. 87
In ink on verso: "... Howells Ferries No. 87-B" First part of text lost to cropping. In pencil on recto: "No 87 B". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Ewing and Hopewell in Mercer County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Pennington, Bear Tavern and Trenton. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Soiled, stained, 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. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: "J WHATMAN".
