Sketch from information of the different roads about Freehold in the Jerseys

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Item Information

Title:
Sketch from information of the different roads about Freehold in the Jerseys
Creator:
Hills, John, active 1777-1819
Date:
[1770–1779]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Genre:
Manuscript maps
Location:
William L. Clements Library
Collection (local):
William L. Clements Library Collection
Subjects:
Philadelphia Campaign, 1777-1778--Maps
Roads--New Jersey--Maps
Monmouth County (N.J.)--Maps
Middlesex County (N.J.)--Maps
Pennsylvania--Maps
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps
Places:
New Jersey > Monmouth (county)
New Jersey > Middlesex (county)
Pennsylvania
Extent:
1 ms. map : col. ; 69 x 93.4 cm.
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Scale:
Scale 1:80,000.
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
Catalog record
Notes:
Map believed to be by John Hills.
Finished, colored, topographical map of part of the modern counties of Monmouth and Middlesex, showing the roads between Freehold, South Amboy, Middletown, and Spotswood.
Table of distances at lower left.
The addition of unidentified and uncolored symbols for military units in the area of Navesink suggests that this map relates to the British retreat across New Jersey in 1778.
Clinton Maps 233.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
8299
Barcode:
B2667762