Crown Point or S.t Frederick's Fort at the Head of Lake Champlain and the Mouth of Wood Creek

George, III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820

George, IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830

1759

Scale approximately 1:720

English

British Library

British Library Collection

• Fortification--New York (State)--Crown point--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Military art and science--New York (State)--Crown Point--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Fort Saint Frederic (Crown Point, N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Crown Point
• Essex (county)
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States

1 map : manuscript pen and ink with watercolour ; 18 x 31 cm

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• 1759 added in ink after the title.
• Shows a "Scale of 100 Feet" across the bottom of the map where 60 feet are equal to one inch.
• Shows the windmill and citadel pictorially.
• Shows the bastions extending beyond the coast.
• Photostatic reproduction in Hulbert, Archer Butler. The Crown Collection of photographs of American maps. Series 2.
• Titled "A drawn Plan of Crown Point or St. Frederick's Fort, 1759" in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829.
• Titled ' A plan of "Crown Point, or St. Frederick's Fort, at the head of Lake Champlain and the mouth of Wood Creek, 1759;" drawn on a scale of 60 feet to an inch; 1f. x 8 1/2 in. (Three copies.)' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.