[Charles Town Neck Exhibiting the Plan of the Town and all the Fortifications in December 1781]

Frazer, Sir Augustus Simon, 1776-1835

Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies

[1781]

[producer not identified]

Scale approximately 1:8,000

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--South Carolina--Charleston--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Charleston (S.C.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Charleston
• Charleston (county)
• North and Central America
• South Carolina
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 55 x 76 cm

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• Date and title from verso
• Relief shown by shading
• Shows fortifications including on "Hampstead Hill", and new bastions and new hornwork are shown outside the city.
• Shows scale bar at right in yards
• Compare Add Ms 57,715.18. for a map of the wider harbor environs by the same hand.
• Copy at Add Ms 27,715.19. Manuscript "19" added in pencil at upper right. Manuscript annotation in black ink at upper right, "Presented by Colonel Sir Augustus Frazer K.C.B. R.A.". Laid on archival tissue. Green circular label to verso showing "11". Blue label to verso showing "A 30/34", and annotation repeated in pencil. White label to verso showing "DRAWER 30 SECTION 1". Titles to verso in ink. Additional manuscript annotations in pencil repeat "19" and the pressmark "MS 57715". Paper watermark shows a fleur de lys within a shield. Countermark showns "J. WHATMAN".