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Title: James Lyne's survey, or, as it is more commonly known, The Bradford map;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920 Lyne, James
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & company
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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John Pintard and the Estate ofCapt. John Searle (his brother-in-law) deceasd aredesired to bring in their Accompts : and all thosewho are Indebted to them are desired to pay theBallance to said Pintard to save further Trouble.Also the Utensils in the Rope-walk are to be sold,and sundry Ship Chandlery Wares. THE BRADFORD MAP Gov^ Montgomerie arrivedApril 15, 1728. Died July i,1731. Now, with this statementmade in 1807 by John Pintard,before their eyes, why shouldthe copyists guess at the date of1728 ? At the same time (1807)that Mr. Pintard presented thisoriginal engraving of the Brad-ford Map to the Society of whichhe was the originator andfounder, he also donated itA Plan of the City of New^York from an actual SurveyAnno Domini MDCCL V. ByF. Maerschalck, City Survey^Printed, Engraved For and Soldby G. Duyckinck and dedicatedby him to the Honourable JamesDe Lancey Esq^ Lieutenant Gov-ernor and Commander In Chief, A Plan of the Cuy of New Yokk from a^n^aclual Survey Anno Domini M.DCGiy
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FACSIMILE OF THE DUYCKINCK MAPONE-THIRD THE SIZE OF THE ORIGINAL THE BRADFORD MAP In and over the Province ofNew York and Territories De-pending thereon In America. This map is of even greaterrarity than the Bradford Map, asone of the two copies known isin a very imperfect condition.The left-hand portion of theDuyckinck, resembles the Brad-ford Map so closely in size and inthe style of the engraving that itis not a wild conjecture thatGerardus Duyckinck, limner andpicture-dealer at the sign of theTwo Cupids near the Old SlipMarket—(the same GerardusDuyckinck, I imagine, who sup-plied the Coats of Arms, curi-ously burnt in glass, of the eldersand magistrates of the old Gar-den Street Church, which adorned THE BRADFORD MAP the small panes, set in lead, of thewindows of that sacred edifice)—may have obtained possessionof Bradfords copper-plate, piecedit out, and thus on the ruins ofthe Bradford Map constructed hisown. This appears to have beena favorite contrivance of theseearly engr

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