PROJECT for taking POST at CROWN POINT

Montrésor, John, 1736-1799

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

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

1774

May 13.th 1774 by John Montresor.

Scale 1:480

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
• 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 ; 50 x 34 cm

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• Relief is shown by shading.
• With a "Scale for the Plan 40 feet to an inch" at lower right.
• A textual note at lower left reads "That part of the Design colour'd yellow shews what is proposed. The red what is already."
• The new proposals include officers' pavillions, soldiers barracks and two instances of a "Bog House".
• With an inset cross section at the top of the map at a scale of 8 feet to an inch (1:96).
• The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan hold another copy of this map (Map Division M-1298. Maps 4-L-22.). It is also dated May 13th 1774 and signed by John Montresor. However, the name "Wm. Brasier Dealit." is also given at lower right.
• The National Archives also hold a copy of the map. "1 item (enclosure to General Haldimand's letter of 1 June 1774) extracted from CO 5/91 (f 317). New York. 'Project for taking Post at Crown Point 13th. May 1774 by John Montresor Commdg. Engr. at N. York. Copy. W. Brasier Delt. 29th May 1774': plan and section of a fort showing work done and proposed. Scales: 1 inch to 40 feet (plan); 1 inch to 8 feet (section). Compass indicator" with the reference MPG 1/355.
• A “Project for taking Post at Crown Point, 13th May 1774” is also held by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan (Map Division M-1298. Maps 4-L-22.) and is featured in their online exhibition "The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th-century America" at http://www.clements.umich.edu/exhibits/online/geometry_of_war/geoamberina.php (viewed 2014).
• Titled "A drawn Project for taking Post at Crown Point, May 13th, 1774: by I. Montresor" 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 colored "project for taking post at [the Grenadier redoubt near] Crown Point, May 13th, 1774: by John Montresor;" drawn on a scale of 40 feet to an inch, with section on a scale of 8 feet to an inch: 1 f. 8 in. x 1 f. 1 in.' in the Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum.