Catalogue description Pennsylvania (now in United States of America). (1)-(2) Report on the present state of...

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Details of MPHH 1/346
Reference: MPHH 1/346
Description:

Pennsylvania (now in United States of America). (1)-(2) Report on the present state of Fort Pitt and the other dependent forts. Signed by Captain Harry Gordon, RE; Lieutenant Colonel W Eyre, RE, 1 December 1760. Annotation: Received 29 June 1761. (3) Location map of the forts and the surrounding country from Lake Erie south to the Cheat River (bordering West Virginia) and Fort Cumberland (in Maryland): showing forts, French Creek, the Allegheny, Monongahela and Youghiogany Rivers, mountains, roads and tracks, place names and encampments. Scale: 1 inch to 5 miles. Compass rose. By Lieutenant Elias Meyer, Engineer, 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot. Inset fort plans: (1) Fort Presque Isle (now in Erie City); (2) Fort Le Boeuf; (3) Fort Venango; (4) Fort Pitt (Pittsburg); scales: (1)-(3) 1 inch to 120 feet; (4) 1 inch to 200 feet. Endorsed: 'R d with L t Col o Eyre & Harry Gordons Letter of 1 Dec 1760'. (4) Similar version of (3); not identical.
Date: 1760-1761
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: X/7/3
Former reference in The National Archives: WO 78/296
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Dimensions: 109.2 cm x 53.8 cm
Map scale: 1:316800
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2798

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