“State of New Jer­sey” map (58.5 x 28.5 cm) fac­ing verso of final printed leaf of The Peti­tions and Memo­ri­als of the Pro­pri­etors of West and East-Jersey, to the Leg­is­la­ture of New-Jersey New-York: Printed by Shep­ard Kol­lock, no. 156, Water-Street., [1784] Call num­ber: Ex 1174.271.2 c.1. Copy with own­er­ship sig­na­tures of John Ruther­furd (1760–1840), who com­piled the text of Peti­tions and Memo­ri­als.
❧ Joseph J. Fel­cone in his New Jer­sey Books 1698–1800 (1992) cov­ers the pub­lish­ing his­tory of this book (entry 22). He states “It is the first map depict­ing only New Jer­sey to be printed and pub­lished in Amer­ica.” Alas, the iden­tity of the map­maker is not known, but there is evi­dence to sug­gest it was John Hills. As of 1991, the orig­i­nal cop­per plate sur­vived and owned by Howard Sereda of Edi­son, NJ.