creator:Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.

title: Roads from Ringwood to Pompton Plains and from Pompton Plains to Sufferns. No 42 / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

genre/form:Early works to 1800 -- lcsh

format: 53.0 cm. wide by 56.0 cm.high, 1 map on several assembled sheets

description: Military topographic map. Covers the townships of Franklin and Hohokus in Bergen County, New Jersey; of Pompton in Passaic County, New Jersey; and of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. Shows roads running though Ringwood, Erskine, Ringwood Junction, Midvale, Wanaque, Haskell, Pompton Lakes, Oakland, Darlington and Suffern. Also shows buildings and owners' names, landforms and streams. Shows relief by hachures. Title proper from recto is the work of a later editor--Simeon DeWitt or his assign--subsequent to 1820. Title from verso is in Erskine's hand and may be cited as such. Index title, statement of responsibility, date, series title and series numbering also by Erskine, but on separate index sheet filed at head of series. Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper. One of two principal sheets cut across center and patched. Half a dozen smaller pieces added to these. Watermarks: "S&K" twice, "P A MESIER" Foxed, creased, frayed, and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto: "No 42" (twice). Also in ink on verso: "42"

identifier: n0272

provenance: New-York Historical Society