Plan of Oyster Bay, as fortified by the Queen's Rangers

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Plan of Oyster Bay, as fortified by the Queen's Rangers
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Item Information

Title:
Plan of Oyster Bay, as fortified by the Queen's Rangers
Creator:
Simcoe, John Graves, 1752-1806
Contributor:
Spencer, G.
Name on Item:
from a sketch by Lt. Col. Simcoe, taken on the spot ; copy G. Spencer Lt. Q. Rs.
Date:
[1787]
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
George Washington's Mount Vernon
Collection (local):
Richard H. Brown Revolutionary War Map Collection at Mount Vernon
Subjects:
Oyster Bay (N.Y.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Nassau (county) > Oyster Bay
Extent:
1 map ; 18 x 21 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
Exeter : Printed for the author
Scale:
Scale [ca. 1:11,100]
Language:
English
Catalog Record:
MVLA record
Notes:
Oriented with north to the bottom.
Relief shown by hachures.
Includes references.
In Simcoe's A journal of the operations of the Queen's rangers (Exeter : Printed for the author, [1787]), facing p. 62.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
06_01_010198