A Sketch of Part of Staten Island

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1755]

[Producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:12,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Ferries--New York (State)--New York--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• New York
• North and Central America
• Richmond (county)
• Staten Island
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 25 x 36 cm

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• Exact location not identified, but shows the environs of Mr Watson's ferry on Staten Island (established in 1755 - see Lundrigan, Margaret. Staten Island: Isle of the Bay, page 149).
• Shows "Road to Amboy" and "Road to Elizabeth.
• Shows numbered plots (?) - military significance?
• Map is oriented with north th the right, indicated by a compass arrow.
• Shows title at upper centre.
• Shows a scale bar at lower centre, "Scale of 200 Pace to an Inch".
• Copy at Add Ms 57,711.6. Bound in R.U.S.I. Vol LXXVI. Shows manuscript addition of "6" in pencil at upper right. Shows "A 70" in pencil at lower right and "A 29/62" at lower left. Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso shows "20". White label to verso shows "DRAWER 29 SECTION 3". Blue label to verso shows "A 29/62". Evidence of old folds. Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield, surnounted by a crown, with "LVG" beneath.