A Plan of Southern Rhode Island by Fage, 1779 (manuscript)

Cartographer: Edward Fage Plan of the Southern Part of Rhode Island with the Harbour, and such of the Adjacent Coasts as is necessary to express the entrance of the Three Rivers into the Narragansett Bay. [cartouche top centre] The Plan of the Southern Part of Rhode Island is laid down from a very late survey, to exhibit the ground round the Town of New-Port, and the Situation of the works and Line of Defence occupied by the Britsh Troops when attacked in August 1778; Also the Ennemy Line of Approach by Land, with the Disposition and movement of the French Fleet by sea. [cartouche, top centre] / Laid down from a survey by Edward Fage, Lieutenant Royal Artillery January 1779 [to left of cartouche]. Coloured, water in blue, hachuring, beaches in yellow, houses and streets; military and naval locations and accompanying legends in red.