From the Anchor Tavern through Wilmington + Newport + past Christiana Bridge + across Couches Bridge over the South end of Iron Hill to a little past the division line into Deleware. No 124, B / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
From the Anchor Tavern through Wilmington and Newport and past Christiana Bridge and across Couches Bridge over the South end of Iron Hill to a little past the division line into Delaware. No 124, B
Route to York in Virginia, A B C D E F G H I K L M [N O P Q] R S T U. 124
From the Ancor Tavern Through Wilmington & Newport & past Christiana Bridge & Cross Couches bridge over the South end of Iron Hill to a little past the Division Line into Deleware. B No- 124

From the Anchor Tavern through Wilmington and Newport and past Christiana Bridge and across Couches Bridge over the South end of Iron Hill to a little past the division line into Delaware. No 124, B
Route to York in Virginia, A B C D E F G H I K L M [N O P Q] R S T U. 124
From the Ancor Tavern Through Wilmington & Newport & past Christiana Bridge & Cross Couches bridge over the South end of Iron Hill to a little past the Division Line into Deleware. B No- 124

1781
[1781]

1 map : ms. ; 73 x 97 cm., on sheet 61 x 49 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 124, B

Date 1781 inferred by cataloger. Military topographic map. Covers the counties of New Castle in Delaware and of Cecil in Maryland. Shows roads running through Bellevue State Park, Wilmington, Silview, Newport, Stanton, Christiana and Cooches Bridge. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled, 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. Title from verso is contemporaneous with map and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, series title and series numbering also contemporaneous, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Watermark: " J WHATMAN" accompanied by crest (no pendent initials).

Scale [ca. 1:32,000]

(W 75⁰49ʹ--W 75⁰27ʹ/N 39⁰48ʹ--N 39⁰36ʹ)

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M004608
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