From the Bowling Green Ordinary past the Red House across the Mattaponye past Burke’s Ordinary to near Head Lynche’s Ordinary. No 124, P / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

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Robert Erskine-Simeon DeWitt maps, 1778-1783

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Creator / Contributor: De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834
De Witt, Richard Varrick
United States. Continental Army. Surveying Dept.
Title: From the Bowling Green Ordinary past the Red House across the Mattaponye past Burke’s Ordinary to near Head Lynche’s Ordinary. No 124, P / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
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 B[o]wlinggreen ordinary past the Redhouse a[cross] the Mattapony[e] past Burkes ordinary to near Head Lynch’s ordinary. P No 124
Alternative Title: 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 B[o]wlinggreen ordinary past the Redhouse a[cross] the Mattapony[e] past Burkes ordinary to near Head Lynch’s ordinary. P No 124
Date: 1781
[1781]
Physical Description: 1 map : ms. ; 61 x 49 cm
Series: Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 124, P
Description: Date 1781 inferred by cataloger. Military topographic map. Covers Caroline County in Virginia. Shows roads running through Farmers, Bowling Green, Antioch Fork, DeJarnette, Wrights Fork and Campbells Corner. Also shows buildings, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Soiled, creased 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: Scale [ca. 1:32,000]
Coordinates: (W 77⁰23ʹ--W 77⁰18ʹ/N 38⁰05ʹ--N 37⁰54ʹ)
Identifier: Maps -- M30
M004583
n000286m
Subject: Buildings--Virginia--Maps
Landforms--Virginia--Maps
Rivers--Virginia--Maps
Roads--Virginia--Maps
Subject geographic name: Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Material type or medium of original: manuscript maps
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