creator:Erskine, Robert, 1735-1780.

title: From Ponds Church to Paramus, Totowa, Pompton. No 56, A / by Robert Erskine F.R.S. Geogr. A. U.S. and Assistants.

genre/form:Early works to 1800 -- lcsh

format: 33.0 cm. wide by 42.0 cm.high, 1 map

description: Military topographic map. Covers the township of Franklin in Bergen County, New Jersey; "Chrystal pool" is now called Franklin Lake. Shows roads running through Pompton Lakes, Pompton, Oakland, Camp Gaw, Wykoff and Waldwick. 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. Watermarks: "GR" accompanied by Britannia; similar to Gravell and Miller foreign watermarks nos. 310 and 311. Torn and frayed, soiled, foxed, creased and abraded. Mounted on cloth, bound and cropped, disbound and silked by subsequent owners. Cleaned after removal of backings 1999; some fill remains. Lined with China paper. Sheathed in mylar. In pencil on recto: "No 56 A"

identifier: n0298

provenance: New-York Historical Society