From Coldenham towards Goshen the Walkill Road. No 128 (4th) / 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 Coldenham towards Goshen the Walkill Road. No 128 (4th) / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128
Alternative Title: Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128
Date: 1782
[1782?]
Physical Description: 1 map : ms. ; 29 x 44 cm
Series: Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 128, 4th
Description: Date probably 1782, based on association with sheet 128,1st. Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Montgomery and Hamptonburg in Orange County, New York. Shows roads running through Coldenham, Berea, Neelytown and Lagrange. Also shows buildings and owners’ names. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Soiled 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. 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". References: Heusser, Albert H. George Washington’s map maker, p. 249-256.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:32,000]
Coordinates: (W 74⁰17ʹ--W 74⁰08ʹ/N 41⁰32ʹ--N 41⁰26ʹ)
Identifier: Maps -- M30
M004398
n000308m
Subject: Buildings--New York (State)--Maps
Landowners--New York (State)--Maps
Roads--New York (State)--Maps
Subject geographic name: Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Orange County (N.Y.)--History--18th century--Campaigns--Maps, Manuscript
Material type or medium of original: manuscript maps
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