Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florida, Chester, +c. No 128, (2nd) / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florida, Chester, etc. No 128, (2nd)
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128
Roads from Smiths Mill & Otterkill Church to Go[shen] Florada, & to Chester
Date probably 1782, based on association with sheet 128,1st. Imperfect: lacking small fragments along crease line. In pencil on recto: "No 128". Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Hamptonburg, Blooming Grove, New Windsor and Goshen in Orange County, New York. Shows roads running thorugh Florida, Mapes Corners, Howell, Goshen, East Chester, Campbell Hall, Hamptonburg, Girard, Otterkill, Washingtonville and Little Britain. Also shows buildings and owners’ names, landforms and streams. Oriented with north to right of sheet. 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. Title from verso is contemporaneous with map and may be cited as such. Title from separate index sheet filed at head of series is also contemporaneous. This 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.
