Catalogue description New York (afterwards part of the United States of America): New York City. Map...

New York (afterwards part of the United States of America): New York City. Map comprising two joined sheets, together covering New York Island (now Manhattan), the Hudson River and East River, and surrounding land (now in Brooklyn, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Hudson County, New Jersey); showing place names, roads, the nature of the terrain, and British and American fortifications. Reference tables to defence works, etc. Scale: 1 inch to 800 feet. Compass indicator to each sheet. A substantial portion at the southern end, consisting of most of the reference table to sheet 1, has perished. The coastlines appear to marry fairly well at the join between the two sheets; however a dotted line and area of duller colouring and reduced detail near to the join at the southern end of sheet 2, suggests that sheet 1 was originally intended to overlap sheet 2 at this point; the directions of the two compass indicators are consistent with such an overlap.

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2699. This map was printed and published as: B F Stevens, Facsimile of the Unpublished British Headquarters Coloured Manuscript Map of New York and Environs. Reproduced from the Original Drawing in the War Office London (London, 1900)