Plan of the Slote No 123 / Taken September 1780 Wm. Mc’Murray Capt. P.M. ; by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
A plan of the Sloat. No. 123
Sloat: 4 Ch. to an inch. 123

A plan of the Sloat. No. 123
Sloat: 4 Ch. to an inch. 123

1780-09
1780 Sep.

1 map : ms. ; 41 x 37 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 123

In both ink and pencil on recto: "No 123." Same text in ink on verso. Lengthy pencil text on verso illigible. Military topographic map. Covers the township of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York. Shows roads running through Piermont and Sparkill. Also shows buildings, landforms and streams. Original title proper and first statement of responsiblity from map recto. Index title, second statement of responsibility, series title and series numbering contemporaneous, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. This sheet bears no title on map verso. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Scale from title, bar scale and calculation. Supplementary text reading "Scale of Sixteen perches to an inch" on map recto is incorrect whether the value of a perch is taken to be 5029 or 3180 mm. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, creased, frayed and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. Watermark: Whatman crest with pendent initials "G R".

Scale [1:3,170] 4 Ch. to an in.

(W 74⁰56ʹ--W 74⁰54ʹ/N 41⁰03ʹ--N 41⁰01ʹ)

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Landforms--New York (State)--Maps
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