Description: Robert Erskine map of the Highlands

Robert Erskine map of the Highlands

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Main Author:	Erskine, Robert 1735-1780 (Creator)
Collection:	Robert Erskine Map of the Highlands
Collection Number:	Am.6213folio
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Maps > 18th century Maps > 18th century Maps > 18th century United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Maps Washington, George, 1732-1799
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Physical Description:	0.05 Linear feet 1 volume containing 3 maps
Summary:	Robert Erskine was the first Surveyor-General of the United States, having been appointed Geographer to the Army by General George Washington on 27 July 1777. Erskine was in charge of the vast holdings of the American Iron Company based at Ringwood, New Jersey, and from the old manor house he turned out approximately 275 maps for the use of Washington and the Continental Army. This collection includes one original map (1779) and two reproductions (1777-1778). Erskine wrote, "In the spring of 1777 I began to do business for the public, by making a sketch of the Country for Genl. Lee; (and) a map of the Jersies for His Excellency Genl. Washington from materials furnished by Lord Sterling…" According to its features, the original of the map reproduced by The North Jersey Highlands Historical Society map was made sometime between January and October of 1777. Therefore this is either the "sketch" made for General Charles Lee, and hence Erskine's first map made for anyone in this country, or General Washington's pocket copy and smaller version of the second map mentioned above. This second map is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. The second Photostatic map is also of the Highlands, dated 1778-1779, and includes a caption written by Edward Partridge. The one original map, of the Highlands, notes topographical features, names of towns, bodies of water, forges and furnaces, latitude and longitude, colony borders, and even courthouses, churches, and dwellings.

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0.05 Linear feet 1 volume containing 3 maps

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Robert Erskine was the first Surveyor-General of the United States, having been appointed Geographer to the Army by General George Washington on 27 July 1777. Erskine was in charge of the vast holdings of the American Iron Company based at Ringwood, New Jersey, and from the old manor house he turned out approximately 275 maps for the use of Washington and the Continental Army. This collection includes one original map (1779) and two reproductions (1777-1778). Erskine wrote, "In the spring of 1777 I began to do business for the public, by making a sketch of the Country for Genl. Lee; (and) a map of the Jersies for His Excellency Genl. Washington from materials furnished by Lord Sterling…" According to its features, the original of the map reproduced by The North Jersey Highlands Historical Society map was made sometime between January and October of 1777. Therefore this is either the "sketch" made for General Charles Lee, and hence Erskine's first map made for anyone in this country, or General Washington's pocket copy and smaller version of the second map mentioned above. This second map is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. The second Photostatic map is also of the Highlands, dated 1778-1779, and includes a caption written by Edward Partridge. The one original map, of the Highlands, notes topographical features, names of towns, bodies of water, forges and furnaces, latitude and longitude, colony borders, and even courthouses, churches, and dwellings.

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