The Country Twenty Five Miles Round New York. Drawn by a Gentleman from that City.

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• ARTIST: William Hawkes

• PUBLISHER: Published according to Act of Parliament, 21st November, 1776 by W. Hawkes, (Successor to T. Kitchin) No. 59 Holborn Hill.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1776.

• EDITION SIZE: Sheet size, 23 5/8 x 17 3/8" (60 x 44.3 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: A rare separately issued Revolutionary War broadside.<br><br> This map shows New York and surrounding region during the summer of 1776 along with a chronological history of the events that led up and into the beginning of the war. The map itself is centered on the southern tip of Manhattan with a series of concentric circles, each at five mile intervals radiating outward. The map covers as area from the Tappan Sea on the Hudson, southward to the Shrewsbury River, as far west as Parsippany, New Jersey and as far east as Oyster Bay on Long Island. <br><br> Below the map is a most informative table, "Chronological table of the most interesting occurrences since the commencement of hostilities in North America."<br><br> The Chronological Table begins with the mention of what would later be known as the Boston Tea party on December 16th, 1773 ("Three Hundred Forty-two Chests of Tea destroyed at Boston"). And proceeds to recount the events of the war itself, most notably the Battle of Bunker Hill outside Boston ("Action on Bunker's Hill"), and the British evacuation of Boston on March 7th, 1776. The text beside the date July 4th, 1776 reads: "General Congress declare the United States of America Independent." The events over the summer include Howe's landing on Long Island on August 22nd, Sullivan's defeat on August 27th ("Provincials under Major General Sullivan, defeated near Brookland, on ditto"), and end on August 29th "Provincials, under General Putnam, abandon their Lines on Long Island." The text section also provides a great deal of important information including an "Alphabetical Table of the Principal Towns in North America and their Distance from New York," a table listing the population statistics of the various American colonies, and information regarding the command structure, troop strength, and the general disbursement of both the British and American forces. <br><br> This early state is dated 21 November 1776 in the imprint and contains an extra engraved line beneath the left border of the map bringing the information (American Fleet on Lake Champlain destroyed.) to Oct. 13th. This state is unrecorded among the four listed in Stevens & Tree, which describes the first state dated 1 November 1776 and bearing a single engraved line beneath the border of map which begins "Sept. 15. 1776 British Forces", the second issue he lists is dated 21 November 1776 and contains an extra engraved line beneath border of map bringing the information down to November 1, 1776; the third state has imprint dated 1 January 1777; and the fourth state was published by R. Sayer & J. Bennett 2 June 1777 and with the two engraved lines bringing information down to 16 November.<br><br> Engraved by J. Barber, Holborn Hill. <br><br> Nebenzahl mentions the present state as being between Stevens & Tree 43a & 43b. Nebenzahl 110; see Stevens & Tree 43; Streeter II:786 (43d later issue).<br><br>

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Manuscript writing on verso "Twenty Miles round New York."

• CONDITION: Overall in good condition. There is some surface soiling and at one time the map was folded. There is some reinforcement of the plate line on both sides of the map. Small area of paper loss in the lower left due to being part of a tab for folding.. Original outline hand coloring.

• REFERENCE: Sellers and Van Ee, "Maps and Charts of North America," #1096; Stevens & Tree "Comparative cartography" #43 variant between a & b; Nebenzahl #110.

• CATEGORIES: Maps , Historical , Revolutionary War