Map of the State of New York

by Simeon De Witt Surveyor General Contracted from his large Map of the State by Simeon De Witt

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Unique copy of De Witt's important 1804 map of New York, with county divisions updated to 1812. In 1778, George Washington appointed Simeon De Witt as the assistant to Robert Erskine, the first Geographer and Surveyor General of the United States, a position De Witt attained several years later. Following the war, De Witt became the first Surveyor General of New York, a position he held for an unprecedented fifty years. Among his first acts was to create the definitive

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