A map of the Province of New York, with part of Pensilvania, and New England : from an actual survey by Captain Montresor, engineer, 1775

Montrésor, John, 1736-1799

Andrews, Peter, active 1765-1782

Dury, Andrew

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

[1777]

A. Dury ...

Scale ca. 1:320,000

English

New York Public Library

Maps of New York City and State

• New York (State)--Maps--Early works to 1800
• New England--Maps--Early works to 1800
• Northeastern States--Maps--Early works to 1800

• New England
• New York
• North and Central America
• Northeastern United States
• United States

1 map : col. ; 146 x 93 cm., on 2 sheets 74 x 94 cm. and 73 x 94 cm.

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• Relief shown pictorially and by hachures.
• Shows administrative divisions.
• Prime meridian: London.
• Engraved by P. Andrews.
• Hand colored.
• 2nd issue.
• "Published ... June 10th 1775 by A. Dury, Dukes Court, St. Martins Lane, London. Republished with great improvements, April 1st, 1777."
• "To the Right Honourable Sir Jeffery Amherst, this map of the Province of New York is humbly inscribed by his most obliged humble servant, John Montresor, engineer."
• "Scale of British statute miles, 69 1/2 to a degree. Scale of leagues, 20 to a degree."
• Appears in William Faden's The North American Atlas. 1777.
• Montresor was one of the most active and wide-ranging military engineers operating in America in the period spanning the French and Indian War and the American Revolution. This map is his largest scope map and is considered one of the most detailed maps of New York issued during the Revolutionary era.