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'Plan of the City of New York Survey'd by Bern d. Ratzen, Lieut. in the 60 th Regt.'....
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/225
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This record is about the 'Plan of the City of New York Survey'd by Bern d. Ratzen, Lieut. in the 60 th Regt.'.... dating from [c1776] in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MPH 1/225
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c1776]
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Plan of the City of New York Survey'd by Bern d. Ratzen, Lieut. in the 60 th Regt.'. The part of the town destroyed by the fire of 21 September 1776 is coloured red, now much faded. Streets named; some owners of houses on the outskirts. Reference tables to churches and other principal buildings; forts, batteries, entrenchments etc. Scale: 1 inch to about 400 feet. Compass star. Drawn by F Walden.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/1855
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- Public Record(s)
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- 58.9 cm x 89.4 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2694
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4562032/
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