From Pluckemin to Black River. No 117, C / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
From Mt Pleasant to New Germantown & from Pluckemin to Black River A B & C. 117
From Pluckemin to Black River. No 117 C

From Mt Pleasant to New Germantown & from Pluckemin to Black River A B & C. 117
From Pluckemin to Black River. No 117 C

1780

1 map : ms. ; 38 x 32 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 117, C

Drawing attributed to Simeon DeWitt, based on attribution made for sheet 117,A of series. In erased pencil on recto: "No 117 C". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Chester in Morris County and of Bedminster in Somerset County, New Jersey. Shows roads running through Chester, Gladstone, Peapack, Bedminster and Pluckemin. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Soiled, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound, 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 contemporaneous with map and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also contemporaneous, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: dove. Countermark: "MW." Similar to Gravell and Miller American watermarks nos. 477 and 478.

Scale [ca. 1:34,000]

(W 74⁰42ʹ--W 74⁰38ʹ/N 40⁰48ʹ--N 40⁰38ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004630
n000257m

Buildings--New Jersey--Maps
Landforms--New Jersey--Maps
Landowners--New Jersey--Maps
Rivers--New Jersey--Maps
Roads--New Jersey--Maps

Morris County (N.J.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Raritan River Valley (N.J.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Somerset County (N.J.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript

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