Map of New York and Environs 1782
BF STEVENS'S Facsimile of the 1782 Unpublished British Headquarters Coloured Manuscript Map of New York and Environs. Printed in 1900
Eymund Diegel overlay of modern shoreline on Red Hook section, 2016
A 1782 map of New York, reproduced from a drawing in the British War Office, printed by B. F. Steven in 1900. The map shows fortifications made during the American Revolutionary War. Cartographer Eymund Diegel has overlaid the modern Red Hook shoreline on a cropped section of the map.

The David Rumsey map collection website, where this map can be found includes text from the printed advertisement for the map: "BF STEVENS'S Facsimile of the Unpublished British Headquarters Coloured Manuscript Map of New York and Environs 1782. Reproduced from the Original Drawing in the War Office London. 24 sheets Scale 6 1/2 inches to a mile. 10 feet by 4 feet. The successive British Commanders in Chief in America Generals Sir William Howe, Sir Henry Clinton, and Sir Guy Carleton during their respective occupations of New York and Environs in the Revolution caused this manuscript plan from time to time to be kept up. The plan extends from below Guanas Bay to the Heights of Spikendevi, a distance of about eighteen or nineteen miles. It shows the Fortifications, Defenses, Topography, Streets, Roads, etc. of the whole of the Island of New York with the Harbor Islands, Water Ways, and River Frontages on the Hudson and East Rivers, the Military Works on Long Island including Brooklyn, the Works in Paulus Hook...


