The plots in Athens are numbered 1-104 in the town at the south end of "Gerundigut" Bay they are numbered 1-38 in the rest of the township they are numbered 1-51. 193 plots are delineated all of which are faintly numbered in a different hand and with a lighter and redder ink than the rest of the map. The proposed town is shown in unparalleled detail, with plots delineated and assigned to the members of the investing syndicate: Robert Morris, Benjamin Barton, Samuel Ogden and Samuel Street. The quality of the work and the use of a large vellum sheet for the creation of the plan strongly suggests that it was made by de Krafft for one of the proprietors most likely Robert Morris. The plan is skillfully executed in ink and wash color on a single large sheet of vellum. and drafted a manuscript map of a part of the Ohio Valley for Thomas Jefferson, which Jefferson used to extra illustrate his personal copy of his Notes on the State of Virginia (See the biography section below for a full treatment of de Krafft's life and work.) The map was executed by Charles de Krafft, an eighteenth-century American draughtsman and surveyor whose career included the creation of at least 4 manuscript Revolutionary War Battle Plans, served as one of the primary draftsmen for Pierre L'Enfant during the 1791 planning of Washington, D.C. ![]() The earliest-known plan for a town on the future site of Rochester, New York, with an intriguing connection to Robert Morris’ spectacular real estate investments in western New York State. ![]() African Islands, including Madagascar (69)Īn Eighteenth-Century American Manuscript Town Plan on Vellum: A Robert Morris-Led Land Scheme at Present-Day Rochester, New York.
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