Dec 16, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
BENSON, ROBERT
A manuscript plan of Partition Street at Greenwich Street with endorsing signature of New York Revolutionary War figure Robert Benson. Manuscript survey map on paper, unsigned by the surveyor, dated 1784 by Benson and with his ink notation to a corner "This plan adopted by the Common Council Decr 8th 1784/Robt Benson." The map is backed. 9 x 14 1/2 inches (23 x 37 cm). Losses to extremities affecting text, stains, tears, later markings in the image.
Robert Benson (1721-1823) was secretary of the Provincial Congress of New York in 1776 and appointed clerk of the New York Senate until 1784, the year of this map, when he became a member of New York City's Common Council. The map here shows Petition Street between Greenwich Street and the Hudson River. A dock is indicated on the west side of the block. Partition Street was renamed Fulton Street in 1816.
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
BENSON, ROBERT
A manuscript plan of Partition Street at Greenwich Street with endorsing signature of New York Revolutionary War figure Robert Benson. Manuscript survey map on paper, unsigned by the surveyor, dated 1784 by Benson and with his ink notation to a corner "This plan adopted by the Common Council Decr 8th 1784/Robt Benson." The map is backed. 9 x 14 1/2 inches (23 x 37 cm). Losses to extremities affecting text, stains, tears, later markings in the image.
Robert Benson (1721-1823) was secretary of the Provincial Congress of New York in 1776 and appointed clerk of the New York Senate until 1784, the year of this map, when he became a member of New York City's Common Council. The map here shows Petition Street between Greenwich Street and the Hudson River. A dock is indicated on the west side of the block. Partition Street was renamed Fulton Street in 1816.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 16, 2022
