[Map of Snake Hill between Dussenberries and Hasbrooks Mill, New York] No 128 (5th) / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.
Map of Snake Hill between Dusenberries and Hasbrouks Mill, New York No 128 (5th)
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128

Map of Snake Hill between Dusenberries and Hasbrouks Mill, New York No 128 (5th)
Roads from New Windsor to Goshen, Florada, Chester, &c. 128

1782
[1782?]

1 map : ms. ; 39 x 55 cm

Rough draughts of surveys, begun A.D. 1778 ; 128, 5th

Date probably 1782, based on association with sheet 128,1st. Drawing tentatively attributed to DeWitt by cataloger. Military topographic or fortification map. Covers the towns of New Windsor and Newburg in Orange County, New York. Shows buildings and owners’ names, 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 supplied by cataloger. Title number from recto is the work of a later editor. 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 [ca. 1:8,000]

(W 74⁰03ʹ--W 74⁰01S/N 41⁰30ʹ--N 41⁰29ʹ)

Maps -- M30
M004399
n000309m

Buildings--New York (State)--Maps
Landowners--New York (State)--Maps
Rivers--New York (State)--Maps
Roads--New York (State)--Maps

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