This Plan of the investment of York and Gloucester has been surveyed and laid down and is most humbly dedicated / by his Excellency’s obedient and very humble servant, Sebast. Bauman, Major of the New York or 2nd. Regt. of Artillery

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  To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick. Prince of Wales &c. &c. &c. This Chart of the West Indies, Is Humbly Inscribed by His Royal Highness Faithful & Obedient Servant Joseph Smith Speer. [MS note: Army Office Craig's Court Charing Cross]

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  A Plan of the Posts of York and Gloucester in the Province of Virginia, Established by His Majesty's Army under the Command of Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis, together with The Attacks and Operations of the American and French Forces, Commanded by General Washington and the Count of Rochambeau, Which Terminated in the Surrender of the said Posts and Army, on the 17th of October 1781. / Surveyed by Captn. Fage of the Royal Artillery

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  To the Right Honourable Wills, Earl of Hillsborough, First Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, this Map of the County of Middlesex in the Island of Jamaica, laid down from the Papers and under the direction of Henry Moore, Esqre., His Majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island in the years 1756-1761 (and from a great number of Actual Surveys performed by the Publishers) is humbly Inscribed by His Lordship's Most Obedient & Most Humble Servants Thos. Craskell, Engineer, Jas. Simpson, Surveyor

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  To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore, Bar. Captain General and Governour in Chief in & over the Province of New York & the Territories depending theron in America ~ Chancellor & Vice Admiral of the same, This Plan of the City of New York, Is most humbly Inscribed, by His Excellency's Most Obedient Servant, Bernd. Ratzen, Lieut in the 60th Regt., Surveyed in 1767

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