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[Plan of the town of Esperanza situated on the west bank of the North River opposite Hudson]

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Description: Plan of the ideal city Esperanza, designed by architect Pierre Pharoux for Edward Livingston, Brockholst Livingston, and John R. Livingston. With manuscript ink notations marking numerous plots "B" or "BL" (i.e., Brockholst Livingston) and "JRL" (i.e., John R. Livingston). The city was envisioned as the main port on the west side of the Hudson River for goods coming from western New York and beyond. The project was a speculative venture by the Livingston family, powerful New York landowners of the time. The area is now the modern village of Athens, New York. Drafted by Pierre Pharoux and engraved by Charles Balthazar Julie Fevret de Saint Mémin.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [approximately 1794]
Call number: 653033
Creator: Pharoux, Pierre(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., July 2020. Docketed on verso: "Caleb Coffin. This map was presented to Abraham Reynolds by E. Heart". Caleb Coffin is likely Caleb Coffin, 1825-1885, of Athens, Greene County, New York. E. Heart is likely Ephraim Hart, another partner in the development.

Architectural drawings and maps of Pierre Pharoux

Manuscripts

Architectural drawings, in ink and watercolor, for various buildings in New York, including the house and store of Jacob Quesnel and Country house of M. Chorand, and maps of the French Company tracts on the Black River, Castorland Long Falls and Cataract on the Black River, and a plan of Esperanza Town on the North River.

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Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River

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Very detailed map of the City at the start of the American Revolution. See 150238 for two additional copies. Submap: Chart of the Entrance to New York from Sand Hook showing the properest Channel, for Sailing with the Banks and depths of Water.. "Showing the Several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds, with and without the Town." "To the Hon'ble Thos. Gage, Esqr. Major General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America and Colonel of the 22d Regiment of Foot. This plan is most humbly Inscribed by his Obedient Servant. John Montresor. Engineer. R. Andrews Sculp." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet, Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps.

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A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River

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Two copies of the same map, one copy mounted in board. Very detailed map of the City at the start of the American Revolution. See 12036 for an additional copy. Sub map: Chart of the Entrance to New York from Sand Hook showing the properest Channel, for Sailing with the Banks and depths of Water. "Showing the Several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Fort & Battery, with the true Form & Course of the Commanding Grounds, with and without the Town. Surveyed in the Winter 1775." "To the Hon'ble Thos. Gage, Esqr. Major General and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in North America and Colonel of the 22d Regiment of Foot. This plan is most humbly Inscribed by his Obedient Servant. John Montresor. Engineer. R. Andrews Sculp." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet, Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS note: 150238.

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A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River

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Hudson River - looking south from Battery Knox, West Point

Visual Materials

Image of a landscape view of the Hudson River looking south from the Knox Battery at the United States Military Academy on West Point in Orange County, New York, including views of the "Beverly House" and "Riding Hall" as captioned; boats visible on the river and near a dock at center; observers admire the river in foreground at bottom right.

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Record of the lottery drawing

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Official record of the Sep. 1, 1746 drawing. The record is signed by the managers of the lottery Peter Vallette, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, and Gabriel Ludlow (1704-1773) and by the recorder Peter Ketelaar. Also included are the accounts of the colony of New York with Vallette, Livingston, and Ludlow.

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[Plan of the town of Esperanza situated on the west bank of the North River opposite Hudson]

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