Manuscripts

Plan of the ground near New York [cartographic material] / Lt. Meyer

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Description: Manuscript map by Lieutenant Elias Meyer, of the 60th Royal American Regiment. Shows the topography of the area north of the palisades in New York City. Shows the gate and block houses from which run the roads to Boston and Bloomington. Shows sections of elevated land which could be used for defensive positions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: Approximately 1756
Call number: mssHM 15450
Creator: Meyer, Elias (-1766)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 93, No. 496, 1924.
Dimensions: sheet 37 x 46 cm
Associated people: Kashnor, Leon, (1880-1955,)
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A chart of the coast of Nova Scotia from Port Maltois to Lawrence town [cartographic material] / Copeye'd by me E. Meyer Lt. of the 60, or Royal American Regt. 1757

Manuscripts

Manuscript map showing details of the coast of Nova Scotia. Shows "Capt. Lieut. Lewis's march with a party of rangers to Luneburg in Feby. 1755 and from thence" which gives the track from Halifax. Also shows the roads from Halifax to Fort Sackville and on to Pisquid, Capt. Floyer's route to the Basin of Mines, and the "Indian Path to the Lakes, by wich [sic] and the River Chebenacadie they go to Quebecq." Elias Meyer was a lieutenant in the Royal American Regiment from 1756 to 1762 and was primarily employed as a mapmaker. --See Kashnor. Museum Book Store, Catalog No. 93, no. 307.

mssHM 15415

A plan of the batteries erected in the front of the town of Halifax, 1755 [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript plan showing the defensive batteries around Halifax about 6 years after the first European settled there. Shows the layout of the town, the Governor's house, store, ordinance and market buildings and the King's wharf.

mssHM 15423

A plan of Louisbourg [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

A manuscript copy, probably made around 1758. Shows detailed layout of the fortifications around Louisburg.

mssHM 15411

Plan of the harbor of New York [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

Manuscript map rough draft by Samuel Holland and Charles Rivez, appears to be taken from an earlier map that depicts the period 1735. Related to William Bradford's map of the harbor, published in 1735.

mssHM 15451

Plan of Fort Cumberland [cartographic material]

Manuscripts

A manuscript map showing Fort Cumberland, New Brunswick (formerly Fort Beauséjour). Copy by Charles Rivez; the "Explanation" is in another hand. The map shows the profile of the fortifications for several sections. Kashnor attributes the original to Richard Gridley.

mssHM 15414

Map of New York Isld. with the adjacent rocks in the remarkable passage of Hell Gate [cartographic material] / by IBH, 1778

Manuscripts

Manuscript map depicting New York Island [Manhattan]. Shows the location of the winter quarter barracks for the American troops which were burned when the British forces landed at Frog's Pt. The east view of Hell Gate passage is depicted at the bottom of the map, showing surveyors in the foreground and ships in the passage.

mssHM 15400

Plan of the ground near New York [cartographic material] / Lt. Meyer

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