Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florida, Chester, +c. No 128, 1st / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florida, Chester, etc. No 128, 1st
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128

Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florida, Chester, etc. No 128, 1st
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128

1782
[1782?]

1 map : ms. ; 64 x 48 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 128, 1st

Date probably 1782, based on presence of a label for the Hasbrouck house at Newburgh, which was Washington’s HQ from April of that year. In pencil on recto: "No 128". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of New Windsor, Cornwall and Montgomery in Orange County, New York. Also shows position of troops; also buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Shows relief by hachures. Stained, soiled, foxed, 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. No title on verso. Title from separate index sheet filed at head of series is contemporaneous with map and may be cited as such. The entry was transcribed by Heusser and is still legible under longwave ultraviolet light. Statement of responsibility, series title and series numbering from same index. Watermark: "J WHATMAN" accompanied by crest having pendent initials "G R". References: Heusser, Albert H. George Washington’s map maker, p. 249-256.

Scale [ca. 1:32,000]

(W 74⁰09ʹ--W 73⁰58ʹ/N 41⁰32ʹ--N 41⁰25ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004395
n000305m

Buildings--New York (State)--Maps
Landforms--New York (State)--Maps
Landowners--New York (State)--Maps
Military camps--New York (State)--Maps
Rivers--New York (State)--Maps
Roads--New York (State)--Maps

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