[New York Island and East Jersey. Unfinished.
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Scale ca. 1:17,000.
Title from manuscript catalog of the Peter Force map collection.
Variant title in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: Topography of upper part of Manhattan Island from about 85th St. to about the Van Cortlandt Manor house, above King's bridge. 1777-1780.
Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
Relief shown by shading.
Shows detailed topography of Manhattan Island north of Hell Gate, east of the Harlem River to the Bronx River, and in New Jersey west to the Hackensack River. Without names or military information.
Note on verso: No. 6. Unfinished drawings. 50 sheets. (2) same as ten other with work on Jersey side and in Westchester County.
LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1091
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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