A part of the map made by Claude Joseph Sauthier in 1774, by order of Gov. Tryon, and published by William Faden in London, Jan. 1, 1779, as a Chorographical Map of the Province of New York in North America, Compiled from actual surveys deposited in the Patent Office at New York. This section is reproduced from a reduction made in 1849 by David Vaughan, and published in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., vol. i., where Tryon's report on the province in 1774 is printed. There is a copy of the original in Harvard College library (portfolio 3520). It was the basis of the map Carte des troubles de l'Amérique, par ordre du Chev. Tryon, par Sauthier et Ratzer, traduite de l'Anglais, à Paris, chez Le Rouge, 1778, which is included in the Atlas Amériquain, no. 15. It was also followed in maps published at Augsburg in 1777, and at Nuremberg, 1778. There is another Special Karte von den Brittischen Colonien in Nord America, showing the New England and Middle colonies, published in Christian Leiste's Beschreibung des Brittischen Amerika zur Ersparung der Englischen Karten, Wolfenbüttel, 1778. An English map with a Swedish title, Krigs Theatre in America, is found in the Beskrifning öfver de Engelska Colonierne i Nord America, 1776-1777 (Stockholm, 1777). Sauthier's surveys also appear in A map of the province of New York by Sauthier, to which is added New Jersey from the topographical observations of Sauthier and Ratzer, 1776. Cf. also A map of the provinces of New York and New Jersey ... from the topographical observations of Sauthier, Lotter, 1777 (Brit. Mus. Maps, 1885, col. 3,666).
Sauthier's drafts may be compared with A map of the province of New York with part of Pensilvania and New England from an actual survey by Captain Montresor, engineer, 1775, which was published in London, June 10, 1775, by A. Dury, making four sheets, and was republished "with great improvements", April 1, 1777 (Brit. Mus. Map Catal., 1885, col. 2,969). It was reëngraved in Paris and published in 1777 by Le Rouge, separately, and as nos. 13 and 14 of the Atlas Amériquain in 1778. Ithiel Town, in the preface of his Particular services, etc.,—now a scarce book, as only seventy copies escaped a fire,—speaks of his having obtained from a family near London maps of the American war, mostly about Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, made by Montresor, which were submitted to Marshall. There is a portrait and account of Montresor in Scull's Evelyns in America, 251.
Another important map is The Provinces of New York and New Jersey with part of Pensilvania and the province of Quebec, drawn by Major Holland, Surveyor-General of the northern district in America, corrected and improved from the original materials by Governr, Pownall, Member of Parliament. It was first published in London, June 15, 1775, and in a second edition, in 1776, there were added to it marginal maps of Amboy and the city and bay of New York. The Brit. Mus. Map, 1885, col. 2,969, shows the plates with different titles, dated 1775, 1776; also Frankfort, 1777, and London, 1777. Cf. the map in Mills's Boundaries of Ontario; the Evans map as reproduced by Jefferys, 1775 (see Vol. V. p. 85); the map in the American Atlas, and that of the country from the Chesapeake to the Connecticut, in the Gent. Mag., September, 1776.
The letters of Washington and Greene are still the main source of information for the evacuation of Fort Lee, which at once followed.[798]
It may be well now to note some of the contemporary maps of the whole campaign, as indicating the extent and character of the geographical knowledge then current. The earliest of these is one which appeared in the supplement (p. 607) of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1776, and is called a Map of the Progress of his Majesty's Armies. Two of the American household manuals, Low's Almanac (1776) and Isaac Warren's Almanac (1777), had the same rude cut, a fac-simile of which, with the key, is shown below.
LOW'S ALMANAC, 1777.
Key: A, Gen. Washington's lines on New York Island; B, fort at Powles Hook; C, Bunker Hill, near New York; D, the Sound; E, Kingsbridge; F, Hell Gate; G, Fort Constitution [Washington]; H, Mount Washington; I, Governor's Island.