A map of the bay from Tunderoga to Crown Point | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:Early works to 1800

Physical Description:1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms. ; 32 x 57 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:58670075

Notes:

Cadastral map. Covers Essex County in New York and Addison County in Vermont. Shows streams. Also shows property and owner's names

Shows relief pictorially

Title from verso is in a later hand. "Mr Colden," also on verso, may be in a third hand

Date of situation after New York grants to David Wooster and others ca. 1759--cf. the Colden papers, Collections of the N-Y Hist. Soc. 1923, p. 305

Pen-and-ink, pencil on laid paper

Watermark: "GR", medallion

Torn and frayed, creased, soiled, stained. Lacking 9 x 6 cm. at upper right corner

Includes epistulary text: "My design in having Weed Creek Traversed from the Falls to Ticonderoga is that I may make a Correct Map of the Waters from Sandy Hook to St. Johns at the north End of Lake Champlain & I expect you will make an advantage to yr-self by publishing such a map which I propose to give you the benefit of doing ..." Captains Graham, Wooster, Gardiners, Clark, Lieutenants Alex[ande]r C[a]lhoun, Etherington and Lesslie are mentioned in this text or on map. West side of creek marked "This side of the Waters Laid Down from Mr Kennedys Survey."

Provenence described in a 1906 Aug 23 letter on Dodd, Mead and Company letterhead. "About two years ago, we purchased in Kingston, N.Y. a box of papers which had evidently belonged to William Cockburn ... surveyor ... Among the papers were a few documents relating to surveys signed by Cadwallader Colden, several others by David Colden and Aldexander Colden ... A private collector ... came to the conclusion that the Map was undoubtedly in the autograph of Cadwallader Colden."

Cartographic Mathematical Data:Scale [1:63,360] 1 mi. to an in., (W 73°29ʹ--W 73°21ʹ/N 44°07ʹ--N 43°49ʹ).