[Map showing Saint John's Harbour and a proposed fort]

Skinner, William, 1700-1780

Skinner, Monier

[1745–1773]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:4,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Military art and science--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fortification--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Harbors--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• St. John's (N.L.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Canada
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• North and Central America
• Saint John's

1 map on 3 sheets : joined, manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 56 x 93 cm

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• Date range suggested on stylistic grounds and from (second) period of British occupation of Fort William beginning in 1745 to construction of Fort Townshend beginning in 1773.
• Relief shown by hachuring.
• Sounding depths are given.
• Shows "Scale 400 Feet to an Inch" at lower right.
• Shows Fort William (unnamed).
• Shows a proposed, pentagonal fort west of Fort William (in the approximate location of Fort Townshend that was built in 1775).
• A "Fort George" also existed east of Fort William (see - http://www.northamericanforts.com/Canada/nf.html#stjohns), but had been destroyed by time of this map's production.
• Shows dotted lines in red ink and lettered points along the line (no key given) identifying strategic locations and routes?
• Copy at Add Ms 33,231.II.1. 3 sheets joined comprising a roll. Laid on linen. Manuscript annotation at lower right in black ink, "Handed over to Lieut. Monier Skinner R. Eng.r by his father in 1872" and initialled (by William Skinner?). Red stamp of British Museum at lower right. Pressmark stamped to verso and repeated in pencil.