In pencil on recto: "No 99 A". Military topographic map; an early draft. Lefthand segment joins center one at Easton; righthand segment continguous as drawn with center segment. Covers the counties of Northampton, Bucks and Montgomery in Pennsylvania and of Orange, Sussex, Warren, Morris and Passaic in New Jersey. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Stained, soiled, creased, and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; re-lined with China paper. 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, both statements of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: crest with pendent initials "G R" Countermark "J Whatman".
