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[REID, John, Acting Surveyor-General for New Jersey]. Manuscript map entitled "East Jarsey," signed "pr John Reid 1686" beneath the scale of miles, 1686.
Manuscript map in ink on paper (403 x 297 mm), titled in cross-hatched decorative letters at top, with scale of miles and compass rose at top, place-names in a neat italic hand, areas east of the Hudson (not part of East Jersey) outlined in pale red. (Soiling along old folds, a few minor marginal defects, these neatly mended from the verso.) Provenance: Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9).
THE EARLIEST SURVIVING DETAILED MAP OF NEW JERSEY, THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED PROTOTYPE FOR REID'S PRINTED "EAST JARSEY IN AMERICA"
The manuscript prototype on which Reid's engraved map was evidently based. Reid, acting Surveyor-General for New Jersey at this date, is recorded as having produced several printed maps: a Mapp of the Rariton River, 1675 ("the earliest known map to be engraved upon copper within the present United States," Snyder); A Mapp of Perth Amboy (see lot 12); as well as East Jarsey in America, engraved by R. Simson.
In Reid's very artistic and extremely detailed map, the Hudson and the Jersey coast run obliquely across the sheet, with Staten Island and Perth Amboy at the center. Along the Jersey coast, which extends not quite to Cape May, he has labeled "Part of Barnegat Bay," rivers, including the Manasquan are noted, and he indicates with a dotted line the road from Perth Amboy to Burlington. In the Northwest portion, Reid has carefully shown the Watchung and Ramapo mountains with cross-hatching (labeled "Blue Hills"); in this area are shown the courses of several rivers: the Rahway ("Rawa"), the Piscataway, and the Passaic (even including the Great Falls at present-day Patterson) and the settlement of "New Bergen." Four counties (Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and Bergen) are labeled, but their exact bounds are not indicated. In the waters about New York, Long Island and Raritan Bay, Reid has meticulously entered the water's depths in fathoms.
In its engraved form, the Quintipartite Line has been added and the area shown at the bottom has been extended as far south as Little Egg Harbor, where that line commenced. In other respects the two are nearly identical and the present manuscript map must be regarded as the prototype for the printed map.
Manuscript map in ink on paper (403 x 297 mm), titled in cross-hatched decorative letters at top, with scale of miles and compass rose at top, place-names in a neat italic hand, areas east of the Hudson (not part of East Jersey) outlined in pale red. (Soiling along old folds, a few minor marginal defects, these neatly mended from the verso.) Provenance: Originally part of the Minute Book of the Lords Proprietors of East Jersey (see lot 9).
THE EARLIEST SURVIVING DETAILED MAP OF NEW JERSEY, THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED PROTOTYPE FOR REID'S PRINTED "EAST JARSEY IN AMERICA"
The manuscript prototype on which Reid's engraved map was evidently based. Reid, acting Surveyor-General for New Jersey at this date, is recorded as having produced several printed maps: a Mapp of the Rariton River, 1675 ("the earliest known map to be engraved upon copper within the present United States," Snyder); A Mapp of Perth Amboy (see lot 12); as well as East Jarsey in America, engraved by R. Simson.
In Reid's very artistic and extremely detailed map, the Hudson and the Jersey coast run obliquely across the sheet, with Staten Island and Perth Amboy at the center. Along the Jersey coast, which extends not quite to Cape May, he has labeled "Part of Barnegat Bay," rivers, including the Manasquan are noted, and he indicates with a dotted line the road from Perth Amboy to Burlington. In the Northwest portion, Reid has carefully shown the Watchung and Ramapo mountains with cross-hatching (labeled "Blue Hills"); in this area are shown the courses of several rivers: the Rahway ("Rawa"), the Piscataway, and the Passaic (even including the Great Falls at present-day Patterson) and the settlement of "New Bergen." Four counties (Essex, Middlesex, Monmouth and Bergen) are labeled, but their exact bounds are not indicated. In the waters about New York, Long Island and Raritan Bay, Reid has meticulously entered the water's depths in fathoms.
In its engraved form, the Quintipartite Line has been added and the area shown at the bottom has been extended as far south as Little Egg Harbor, where that line commenced. In other respects the two are nearly identical and the present manuscript map must be regarded as the prototype for the printed map.