PLAN OF FORT STANWIX AT THE ONNIDE STATION Done by a Scale of 150 Feet to one Inch

Pfister, Francis, 1740-1777

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1760–1762]

Surveyd by Fran.s Pfister Eng: 1760.

Surveyd by Fran.s Pfister Eng:,

Scale approximately 1:1,800

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Rome--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Rome--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Stanwix (Rome, N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• New York
• North and Central America
• Oneida (county)
• Rome
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with wash ; 56 x 44 cm

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• Date range suggested from date of 1760 shown on map and date of 1762 supplied by Boston Public Library.
• Relief is shown by shading.
• Shows title, incorporating Pfister's name, the 1760 date and scale bar, in a decorative cartouche at lower right.
• Shows "Road from F.t New Port" and "Road from F.t Harakeman's".
• Shows "Artillery's Garden", "Garrison's Garden", "Buying Place" and "Saw mill" on the banks of the Mohawk River.
• Shows outline only of "Ft Craven" (had been destroyed in 1756).
• Inset at lower left within edcorative, vined boarders are three sections through the fort a a "PLAN OF THE MAGAZINE" with their own scale bar of "Scale 15:th feet to a Inch" (scale approximately 1:180).
• Compare another plan of Fort Stanwix (see Add Ms 57,711.12.).
• Copy at Add Ms 57,711.11. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVI. Shows manuscript addition of "11" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 49" in pencil at lower left and "A 30/70" at upper right. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "47". Manuscript annotation in pencil shows "Drawer 30 Section 1". Blue label to verso shows "A 30/70". Paper watermark shows a shield with a diagonal stripe, surmouted by a fleur de lys, with "LVG" beneath. Countermark shows "JW".