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Map Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country : describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors : a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country

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Title

  • Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country : describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors : a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country

Names

  • Douglass, L. F.
  • Sherman & Smith.

Created / Published

  • Jersey City [N.J.] : Published by the Author, 1841.

Headings

  • -  Jersey City (N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Hoboken (N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Bergen (Jersey City, N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Hudson County (N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Real property--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  Real property--New Jersey--Hoboken--Maps
  • -  Real property--New Jersey--Hudson County--Maps
  • -  Landowners--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  Landowners--New Jersey--Hudson County--Maps
  • -  Land grants--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  Land grants--New Jersey--Hudson County--Maps
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Jersey City
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Hoboken
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Jersey City--Bergen
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Hudson County

Genre

  • Topographic maps

Notes

  • -  Shows cadastral and topographic data (land tracts with proprietors' names) in unurbanized areas.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures and rock drawings.
  • -  Also covers Hudson County (excluding Bayonne).
  • -  Oriented with north toward the upper right.
  • -  Sheet quartered in order to fold.
  • -  LC copy imperfect: Darkened, brittle, missing small sections along edges/fold lines, stained so as to have white spots, rubber-stamped, annotated in blue crayon, adhesive label affixed, annotated in ink on cloth backing "VI No3".
  • -  Includes text, inset of "The town of Bergen as laid out by the Commissioners in 1764" [now part of Jersey City], and ill.

Medium

  • 1 map : on cloth backing ; 86 x 141 cm., folded to 51 x 77 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3814.J5 1841 .D6

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2009584237

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Douglass, L. F, and Sherman & Smith. Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country: describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors: a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country. [Jersey City N.J.: Published by the Author, 1841] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2009584237/.

APA citation style:

Douglass, L. F. & Sherman & Smith. (1841) Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country: describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors: a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country. [Jersey City N.J.: Published by the Author] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009584237/.

MLA citation style:

Douglass, L. F, and Sherman & Smith. Topographical map of Jersey City, Hoboken, and the adjacent country: describing minutely the courses of rivers and brooks, the township and original patent lines, railways, turnpike, carriage and bridle roads, the present farm boundaries with the names of their proprietors: a correct plan of public grounds and gentlemen's country seats, the position of farm houses, forests, swamps, and marshes, showing a complete view of the face of the country. [Jersey City N.J.: Published by the Author, 1841] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2009584237/>.