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Description
Attributed to Eskine by cataloger. Date based on attribution to Erskine. In pencil on recto: "No 131". Military topographic map. Covers the towns of Dover, Pawling, Beekman and East Fishkill in Dutchess County; of Phillipstown, Putnam Valley, Kent, Carmel, South East and Patterson in Putnam County; and of North Salem, Somers, Yorktown and Cortlandt in Westchester County, New York; also the town of Ridgefield in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Map shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. Watercolor for some township boundary lines. Shows relief by hachures. Soiled, creased, frayed and abraded. Mildew damage. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Re-lined with China paper. Sheathed in mylar. Title proper devised by cataloger. Title number appears on recto of map but is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. No verso title. Watermark: "J WHATMAN" accompanied by crest with pendant initials "G R". References: Guthorn, Peter J. American maps and map makers of the revolution, p. 16.
Full Title
[Map of roads in the area bounded by Peekskill and Fishkill (N.Y.), Quaker Hill and Ridgeberry (Conn.)] No 131
NYHS Identifier
Maps -- M30
M004616
n000312m
Genre
Owning Institution
Subject (Topical)
Subject (Geographic)
Contributor
Creator
Digital Format
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Date Created
1778 to 1780
Date Issued
1778 to 1780
Extent
1 map : ms.
col. ; 77 x 53 cm
Archival Coordinates
(W73⁰55ʹ--W73.⁰30ʹ/N41⁰40ʹ--N41⁰18ʹ)