1777 Map - Scull-Erskine
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This is A. Boom's redrawn version of a 1777 map titled "Road from Quibbletown to Amboy and places by bearings". The original was done by Captain Scull (listed as Snell is some places) a cartographer in the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded by Colonel Hampton. He joined Erskine's geographers department in 1778 (Fitzgerald XI, 246; Xii 21). Robert Erskine was Washington's map maker. (I have a copy of the original Scull map and am trying to get permission from the New York Historical Society to post it here.)
Quibbletown is roughly where the New Market part of Piscataway is now and Piscatawaytown was south of there.
Map #55 in the Erskine-DeWitt Series (Guthorn 1966: 18, 19, 32)
Original Map in the New York Historical Society collections.
(Index Entry at: Bobcat.NYU.edu)
Roads Then and Now:
Then Now
Basking Ridge Rd. Vosseller Ave. [1]
Quibbletown Rd. Rock Ave.
Lincoln's Gap King Gorge Rd. [1,2]
Mordecai's Gap, |
Wayne's Gap, |Vosseller Ave. [1,2]
Oliver's Gap |
[1] North of the Rariton Lotts p. 94[2] Angelakos Map
Note: Liesenbein in "Report on a Preliminary Archaeological Investigation of the Alleged Site of the 1777 Summer Encampment of Wayne's Brigade at Middlebrook, NJ", 1974, p. 17, states that "No Revolutionary War map with passes labelled Wayne's and Lincoln's is known to at this time."
"George Washington's Maps - A Biography of Robert Erskine", Albert Heusser, 1928, Rutgers Univ. Press