From Head Lynche’s Ordinary across the Pamunky River to some distance past Hanover Court House. No 124, Q / 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 Head Lynchs’s ordinary Cross the Pamunky river to some distance past hanover Courtho[use] Q No 124

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 Head Lynchs’s ordinary Cross the Pamunky river to some distance past hanover Courtho[use] Q No 124

1781
[1781]

1 map : ms. ; 61 x 49 cm

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

Date 1781 inferred by cataloger. Military topographic map. Covers the counties of Caroline and Hanover in Virginia. Shows roads running through Covingston Corner, Haleys Corner, Dawn and Hanover. 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 [ca. 1:32,000]

(W 77⁰23ʹ--W 77⁰21ʹ/N 37⁰55ʹ--N 37⁰44ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004388
n000287m

Buildings--Virginia--Maps
Landforms--Virginia--Maps
Rivers--Virginia--Maps
Roads--Virginia--Maps

Caroline County (Va.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Hanover County (Va.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript

manuscript maps

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