New York Island and East Jersey : Unfinished

[1770?–1779?]

Scale ca. 1:17,000

English

Library of Congress Geography and Map Division

Library of Congress Collection

• New York (N.Y.)--Maps, Physical--Early works to 1800
• Bergen County (N.J.)--Maps, Physical--Early works to 1800
• New York (N.Y.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
• Bergen County (N.J.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800

• Bergen (county)
• New Jersey
• New York
• North and Central America
• United States

1 manuscript map : hand color, 92 x 113 cm.

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• Title from manuscript catalog of the Peter Force map collection.
• Variant title in Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: Topography of upper part of Manhattan Island from about 85th St. to about the Van Cortlandt Manor house, above King's bridge. 1777-1780.
• Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor.
• Relief shown by shading.
• Shows detailed topography of Manhattan Island north of Hell Gate, east of the Harlem River to the Bronx River, and in New Jersey west to the Hackensack River. Without names or military information.
• Note on verso: No. 6. Unfinished drawings. 50 sheets. (2) same as ten other with work on Jersey side and in Westchester County.